2013 Parents: CHOOSE TO REFUSE
Practice material found on upstate exams boost scores, hurts city kids’ tallies NYPost April 19, 2013
Test-takers see double NYPost April 19, 2013
Talk Back with Hugh Hamilton – WBAI Radio, April 17, 2013
Resistance to High Stakes Testing Grows and Grows Raginghorseblog, April 27, 2013
New York City Parents Boycott State Tests telling Children to Opt Out – DNAinfo
Parents call for boycott of the new, more difficult statewide tests – NY1
Education at the Crossroads WBAI, Interview with Basir Mchawi
April 3, 2013 Edition April 10, 2013 Edition
OPT OUT OF SPRING 2012 High Stakes Standardized Tests
More Children Opted Out of State Testing – Hiten Samtani, NYT
Pearson and how 2012 standardized tests were designed – Valerie Strauss, by Fred Smith
Opting out of tests in the age of the pineapple – Jeff Nichols & Anne Stone
Teachers, parents push back against high stakes testing - Jaisal Noor, FSRN
Long tests are even longer for some special education students - by Jessica Campbell
Parents Pull Kids From School to Boycott State Tests - by Julie Shapiro
NYS educators agree: Flawed, confusing and misleading ELA exams – NYC Public School Parents
Students required to take 9 hours of English and math exams and state using dummy questions – Juan Gonzalez
Voces de Padres – Los daños causados por los exámenes escolares – by Diana Zavala and Andrea Mata
Parent Voices: The Damage from High Stakes School Testing-
Parents keeping kids out of state reading exams-by Rachel Monahan-New York Daily News
With Test Week Here, Parents Consider the Option of Opting Out- by Hiten Samtani, NYT
Small but determined band of families sitting out the state tests- by Philissa Cramer and Jessica Campbell
2012 FIELD TESTS AND BOYCOTT
Growing National Movement Against “High Stakes” Public School Testing – Jaisal Noor, The Real News
10 ways to oppose high-stakes standardized tests - by Valerie Strauss, Washington Post
Parents protest surge in standardized testing – Stephanie Simon, Reuters
¿Cuándo escucharán nuestras voces? -by Diana Zavala e Ydanis Rodríguez, El Diario
Police Estimate 400 at Pearson Field Test Protest – Ed Notes Online
New York Parents Protest Testing – by Michele Molnar, Education Week
Parents protest Pearson, New York state’s ‘field-testing’ of exams – HechingerEd Blog
New York Standardized Testing Protest Brings Parents, Students To Pearson’s Steps – by Alex Kuczynski-Brown, Huffington Post
Some students boycott tryout test – by Heather Brown, Fox 5 News
Schools Boycott Latest Round of Standardized Testing – Lindsey Christ, NY1
Parents Protest High-Stakes Exams Outside Testing Company Offices - Lisa Fleisher, WSJ
Brandishing pineapple, parents and students target Pearson – by Rose D’souza, Gotham Schools
Parents and Students Say ‘Enough’ to more Testing – by Hiten Samtani, NYT SchoolBook
Why we’re protesting today at Pearson HQ – by mishar, Daily Kos
Saying No to Next Week’s Field Tests – City Limits by Fred Smith
Parents Unite! Opting Out of Testing - Manhattan Times
With field tests approaching, parents are reprising protests - by Rose D’souza, Gotham Schools
More Parents Are Saying No to Pearson’s Field Tests - by HitenSamtani, NYT SchoolBook
Articles Related to Boycott and Pearson Field Tests
Dozens of Rockland, Westchester pupils boycott company’s field tests – The Journal News
Rivertowns Parents Denounce Experimental ‘Field Tests’ - Lizzie Hendrick
PS87 Parent’s Association Letter denouncing the use of high stakes standardized testing
Standing Up to Pearson: Speaking Out, Sharing Stories, Growing Resistance – Education Radio
Parents to Pearson: Let My Child Learn - Diane Ravitch
Are You and Your Kids Boycotting State Tests? These Parents Are (POLL) - Bedford Katonah Patch
Featherstone: School field tests go too far – Liza Featherstone, Newsday
Public School Standardized Testing: Enough Is Enough for New York State Kids – Cynthia Wachtell, Huffington Post
A testing culture out of control – The joy of learning is gone from our kids’ schools - Lisa Cowan and Coleen Mingo, NYDN
More tests, More boycotts – Meredith Kolodner, Inside Schools
