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Several panels of independent experts have reviewed Regents exams considering issues of content, accuracy of material, scoring procedures, alignment with standards, rubrics and the quality of student responses. They have also considered student work produced in schools using a system of performance assessment.
The Center for Inquiry has convened five panels to review the content and construction of Regents exams in English, History and Science.
4 Critiqued Regents Exams:
Living Environment -- Regents Review
English Language Arts -- Regents Review
Global History and Geography -- Regents Review
Global and American History -- Regents Review
Report of Review Panel:
November 30, 2001
Read Report
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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...
