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Download testimonies given before the New York Senate Standing Committee on Education in the Senate Hearing Room.

October 15, 2003 - NYC

Click on a name to open testimony as PDF:

Dr. Jacqueline Ancess
National Center for the Restructuring of Education, Schools & Teaching Teachers College, Columbia University

Dr. D. Monty Neill
Executive Director, National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest)

Robert Stake
Professor, University of Illinois

Peter Negron
Student at Urban Academy

Catherine DeLaura
Director, School of the Future

Donald J. Freeman
Principal (retired) from Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School

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Music Video: "Not on the Test"
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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