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Time Out From Testing is a statewide coalition of parent, educator, business, community, and civil rights organizations in New York State committed to a "time-out" from excessive and high stakes exams. We call for a comprehensive review of the Regents exams and state-initiated 4th and 8th grade standardized tests and the impact they have had on our children, our schools, and our communities.
The exams and their grading have been criticized as flawed and unfair: math scores have been invalidated, physics exams have been skewed so that unprecedented numbers of students have failed, literature passages have been censored and diminished. As an assessment tool, the Regents exams have been universally discredited.
These policies must end now, while we work to develop a statewide consensus on what a truly valid and reliable assessment system might be. We wholeheartedly support standards for all students, but we also recognize that we have not yet established the appropriate role for standardized testing within a larger, more comprehensive assessment system, one that employs a variety of methods to assess children's progress.
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Please join us in speaking out about the KLEIN/BLOOMBERG SPIN on Test Scores and Mayoral Control. Let us know if we can add your organization.
Read our statement: English
Read our statement: Spanish
Organizations that are supporting the statement:
Teachers Unite, Black New Yorkers for Educational Excellence, New York Collective of Radical Educators, Mothers Against Mayoral Control, It Is Time, Grassroots Education Movement GEM,
The Purple Circle Day Care Center
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Council Member Bill de Blasio has just issued a report that calls for the DOE to spend more money on teaching and less on standardized testing.
Read the report here.
Read the source list.
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The Alliance for Childhood has issued a report on the need for creative play, not testing or test prep, in kindergarten.
+ Read the flier
+ Read the 8-page summary.
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Stop K-2 standardized testing!
Chancellor Klein and Mayor Bloomberg are considering a policy to bring mandated standardized testing to kindergarten through 2nd grade.
We must stop them!
Sign the online petition today, and pass on the link.
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NCLB is up for reauthorization NOW!
Read about it in THIS BOOKLET
Then contact your congressperson
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Time Out...
