Here's a listing of other resources and research you can find about standardized testing. If you have any other ideas or links, feel free to e-mail them to us.
Be sure to check out our fact sheet
Huge list of articles and links
What experts are saying about testing
State-by-state standards information and research
Fighting the tests - an essay by Alfie Kohn
Ralph Nader on standardized testing
Report on testing from Harvard Civil Rights Project
Rethinking Schools issue on testing
Alternatives to Testing - by Monty Neill and Bob Peterson
State-by-state testing spending in 2001
Government education clearinghouse
Wide selection of further readings
Testing discussion on Jim Lehrer's News Hour
"Testing, Testing" article in The Nation
High Stakes Testing and Civil Rights - a Harvard report by Jay P. Heubert
"Standardized Schools" article in The Nation - by Susan Ohanian
Measuring Learning Without Testing - by Wendy Priesnitz
Rethinking Schools on the 1999 IBM Education Summit
Chicago teacher George Schmidt's story
Education Week's rendition of the George Schmidt story
Senator Paul Wellstone's speech at Columbia
Jonathan Kozol on testing
NAEYC on high-stakes testing
PTA report on high-stakes testing
"The Myth of the Texas Miracle" - by Walt Haney
Student art and writings on testing
MCAS boycott increase in 2001
American School Administrator issue on testing
"The Case Against Tougher Standards" - by Alfie Kohn
"Tougher Tests = Lower Standards" - by Alfie Kohn (in Boston Globe)
Hallmarks of good classroom assessment
Retention and testing info
Student article on Chicago MEAP protests
Article against Florida testing
Harvard study on Texas testing - a report by Linda McNeil and Angela Valenzuela of harmful effects of Texas tests on poor and minority students
Teacher Magazine article of Massachusetts boycotts
Washington Post section dedicated to testing
Alfie Kohn article in Boston Globe
"Youngsters Debate MCAS with Officials" article in Boston Globe
Scores and college admissions
Ground Zero of MCAS dissent
Students Explain MCAS protest
Education and Race
ACLU sues MEAP for race disparity
"The Game Show of Standardized Testing" - by Beverly Lucey
Many downloads from NCIEA
Interview with Jon Katzman
New Evidence of Testing Censorship
Other Testing Research Organizations
National Center for Education Statistics
NAEP - National Assessment of Educational Progress
CRESST - National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing
National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME)
National Study of School Evaluation
North Central Regional Education Laboratory (NCREL)
Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL)
