Friday, June 8, 2012

New york standardized tests

  • NEW YORK -- We are not guinea pigs. Im more than a test score. Testing is stressful. So declared the signs carried by parents and students Thursday outside the Manhattan headquarters of exam publisher Pearson Education.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Hundreds of thousands of students in New York are now taking "field tests" so that Pearson can try out new items for future high-stakes exams. Results on these field tests, good or bad, have no direct consequences for the students.
  • (Washington Post)
  • Parents who oppose the proliferation of standardized testing in schools held a raucous protest Thursday outside the midtown offices of Pearson PLC, which makes tests for New York State.
  • (Wall Street Journal)
  • "We transport all the children in New York City, so we're here to support them But parents like her are still concerned, she said, because Pearson plans to start standardized testing for kindergarten by 2014.
  • (New York Times)
  • June is just a few days away and students' thoughts are turning to summer and away from academics. New York State standardized testing continues well into June, however. The June subject is Science, for Grades 4 and 8.
  • (Examiner)
  • When it comes to standardized testing, students and schools dont usually have a choice. But now, 61 schools across the state, including 47 in New York City, are flat-out refusing to participate in the latest round of tests.
  • (NY1)
  • Protests to standardized testing in the modern world TimeOutFromTesting is but one petition fighting against these high-stake exams.
  • (Examiner)
  • When Nicco Ferraras teacher put an English standardized took on new meaning at Westlake Middle School in Thornwood, N.Y.
  • (myfoxny.com)

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