Vocabulary Test
(click for answers)
- A Nation at Risk
- No Child Left Behind
- Race to the Top
- Common Core
- PARCC
- APPR
- SLOs
- TIMSS
- PIRLS

History Lesson:
Expansion of Federal Power over Public Education and the Loss of Local Control

Reform Proposals Already Introduced In State Legislature

Assemblyman Al Graf (R-Holbrook's) Bill to withdraw from Race to the Top and Common Core (click)

Senator Carl Marcellino's Bill to create exemptions from testing for high performing districts (click)

PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS FIGHTING FOR CHANGE

Open Letter to Commissioner John King

Principals and Superintendents Fighting for Change

Letter from NYC Principals to Commissioner John King (as published in the Washington Post)

New York State Principals Protest APPR

The Man Who Launched the Anti-testing Movment in New York State - from Diane Ravitch's Blog

Performance Assessment.org and Timeoutfromtesting

RELATED ARTICLES

Suffolk County Assemblymen 
Initiate Effort to Withdraw from Race to the Top and Common Core

Great Neck School Board Adopts Resolution Condemning Standardized Testing

Building Planes in Flight - The Common Core

History Repeats Itself

Reaction to the New Tests - NY Times