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Testing Pushback: Where Does It Stand? Where Is It Headed?
Teaching and Testing in the Common Core Era

March 11, 2016

Statewide standardized testing is facing strong criticism and public backlash; witness the opt-out movement that led many families in New York and elsewhere to skip Common Core exams last year. Will the opt-out campaign gain more adherents this spring? How are states responding to concerns about tests and their use? Will newfound federal flexibility spark further change?

Robert Pondiscio, Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Mary Cathryn Ricker, American Federation of Teachers
Bob Schaeffer, FairTest
Chris Stewart, Education Post
Eric Gorski, Chalkbeat (moderator)

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December 23, 2015

Despite persistent political debates, the Common Core State Standards are now a classroom reality in public schools across the country. Yet much is in flux as educators wrestle with how best to teach the Common Core — or their own state’s version of it — and some states rethink the tests tied to the new K-12 standards.

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Bush, Obama focus on standardized testing leads to ‘opt-out’ parents’ movement

April 14, 2013 The Washington Post

A decade into the school accountability movement, pockets of resistance to standardized testing are sprouting up around the country, with parents and students opting out of the high-stakes tests used to evaluate schools and teachers. From Seattle, where 600 high school students refused to take a standardized test in January, to Texas, where 86 percent of school districts say the tests are “strangling our public schools,” anti-testing groups argue that bubble exams have proliferated beyond reason, delivering more angst than benefits.

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Testing Pushback: Where Does It Stand? Where Is It Headed?
Teaching and Testing in the Common Core Era