MTAS Statement at Board of Education Meeting, 2/26/14
The following was presented by More Than a Score at the CPS Board meeting held on February 26, 2014. “Hundreds of parents and students at more than 40 schools and, […]
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Petition against high stakes standardized testing in Chicago Public Schools
Our schools spend too much time, money, and energy on standardized testing and use the results to justify high-stakes decisions on school closings, teacher evaluation, and student promotion. The misuse […]
Mark Your Calendars: Assessments that Make Sense, a forum on Jan. 24
Assessments that Make Sense Testing Forum featuring FairTest’s Monty Neill Thursday Jan. 24 7 pm Parents, teachers and students are fed up with all the standardized testing in our schools. […]
Things to know about standardized testing and teacher evaluation
The results of standardized tests are used not just to assess our kids, but also to evaluate our teachers and principals. This is known as a Value Added Model (VAM) […]
