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2006 Archives
Time Out From Testing has archived the following articles from 2006.

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12-17-064th-graders keep up passing fancyNew York Daily News
12-17-06Assembly Man Mark Weprin Reports To The CommunityWinter 2006
12-17-06'Fixation' on high-stakes testing sparks debateNew York Teacher
11-22-06PANEL: CITY CURVES ITS HS GRADSNew York Post
11-11-06They Flubbed Exams, Get Hired as Executives of Test CompaniesBloomberg.com
11-7-06CITY SCHOOL EXAMS FAIL THE 'TYPO' TESTNew York Post
11-7-06SATs Scored in Error by Test Companies Roil Admissions Process Bloomberg.com
10-29-06Political Backlash Builds Over High-Stakes TestingWashington Post
10-29-06Why school testing scoreboards don't matterMessenger Post Columnist
10-10-06Testing, Testing ... but What?New York Times
10-10-06Teach More, Test Less (1 Letter)New York Times
10-10-06New York English Scores Drop Sharply in 6th GradeNew York Times
10-10-06City Says 339 Students Were Left Back UnnecessarilyNew York Times
9-10-06Feds, public at odds over NCLBeSchool News
9-10-06Report Finds U.S. Students Lagging in Finishing CollegeNew York Times
9-10-06NCLB SEEN AS INEFFECTIVEEducation Week on the Web
9-10-06IN EDUCATION, FLORIDA MOVED THE BULL'S-EYE [Rebuttal to Jeb Bush/Michael Bloomberg NCLB Column]Washington Post Response
9-10-06Macarena Hernández: Test pressure is getting to our schoolsDallas News
9-10-06Joint Organizational Statement on No Child Left Behind (NCLB) ActFairtest.org
8-30-06Boss Un-Makes The GradeNew York Post
8-30-06Teaching students how to think - not just what to knowHaaretz
7-17-06Broad assessments can't fully gauge skillsPoughkeepsie Journal
7-17-06Regents RacketNew York Post
7-4-06Below-Grade Education DepartmentNew York Post
6-29-06An Uproar Erupts at State's Delay in Grading ExamsThe New York Sun
6-29-06More at Risk of Repeating Fifth GradeNew York Times
6-26-06Letter to the Editor: A Third of U.S. Dropouts Never Reach 10th GradeNew York Times
6-26-06A Third of U.S. Dropouts Never Reach 10th GradeNew York Times
6-3-06 Voices of Dissent 4: Interview With Gloria PipkinBlog: Transform Education
5-20-06High School Exit Exam TossedL.A. Times
5-20-06Letter to the Editor: Deborah MeierNew York Times
5-20-06As Test-Taking Grows, Test-Makers Grow RarerNew York Times
5-20-06Regents ask state to probe race biasDaily News
5-20-06Some Schools Are Leaving Recess BehindNew York Times
5-20-06Odd Math for 'Best High Schools' ListNew York Times
5-20-06Regents exam's colonialism questions anger black studentsDaily News
5-20-06Critic of No Child Left Behind Was Disinvited From MeetingNew York Times
5-20-06Regarding the cancellation of my appearance at the IRA in ChicagoPatricia Polacco, 2006
5-20-06The Children's Defense Fund Report: State of America's ChildrenChapter 4: Education
5-20-06Boys Are No Match for Girls in Completing High SchoolNew York Times
5-20-06Principals Face Review in Education OverhaulNew York Times
4-19-06N.Y. should take cue from R.I.: Loosen tight leash on schoolsDemocrat and Chronicle
4-23-06When tests are crucial, so are errorsUSA Today
4-11-06Nobody's Perfect. Neither Is the Test.Yahoo! News
4-11-06More universities are going SAT-optionalYahoo! News
4-11-06Band-Aids or BulldozersRethinking Schools Online
4-11-06Ten Moral Concerns in the Implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act.--
3-27-06Schools Cut Back Subjects to Push Reading and MathNew York Times
3-23-06Are all these tests failing us?NJ.com
3-22-06Standardized Tests Face a Crisis Over StandardsNew York Times
3-22-06Testing Errors Prompt Calls for OversightNew York Times
3-22-06It Doesn't Test for SuccessMount Holyoke College
3-18-06Some Questions From Samples Appear on Math TestsNew York Times
3-18-06Where do the children play?Chicago Sun-Times
3-18-06'NO CHILD' LAW IS FLUNKING THE TESTChicago Sun-Times
3-14-061,600 SAT Tests Escaped Check for Scoring ErrorsNew York Times
3-14-06SAT Errors Raise New Qualms About TestingNew York Times
3-14-06Mistakes on SAT scores raise questions about testingBaltimore Sun
3-14-06Officials Say Scoring Errors for SAT Were UnderstatedNew York Times
2-20-06High School Graduation Rates Unacceptably Low, State SaysNew York Times
1-22-06Student Promotion and Achievement Tests (3 Letters)Newsday
1-20-06Test Givers Earn Another 'F'Newsday
1-18-06For Students, Figuring Out Answer Sheet Was True TestNew York Times
1-18-06What a lot of ed-iotsNew York Daily News
1-18-06Testers Fail On 'ABCs'Newsday
1-8-06Top lieutenant of education reform retires, tips classroom futureNewsday
1-8-06D’s AND F’s FOR ‘NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND’The Black Voice News On-line

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Produced by: Public School Test Records and Grammy Award-winner Tom Chapin

"Keeping Accountability Systems Accountable,"
Martha Foote, Jan. 2007

Schools Cut Back Subjects to Push Reading and Math
Sam Dillon, New York Times

As Test-Taking Grows, Test-Makers Grow Rarer
David M. Herszenhorn, New York Times

Principals Face Review in Education Overhaul
Elissa Gootman, New York Times

"No Child Left Behind: The Test"
Stan Karp, Rethinking Schools

National Education Association:
More information against NCLB.

"Test Question No. 1: Why Have These Tests?"
NYT article on one of Time Out's strongest activists: Jane R. Hirschmann

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