High Stakes Testing and Opting Out: Links

The crisis in US education is not general and national. It is concentrated where there is poverty and segregation. Testing does not address either problem.

Diane Ravitch

• Opt Out Guide for Washington State

• Pocket Opt Out Guide for 2015-2016

• Opt Out Florida Network Guide: 2015-2016

• Alaska Legislature Passes Important Parental Rights Bill

• Part 1: High stakes testing: A little history

• Part 2: High stakes testing and opting out: The Types of Tests

• Part 3: High Stakes Testing and Opting Out: The Variables

• Part 4: High Stakes Testing: The Consequences

• Part 5: High Stakes Testing and Opting Out: The Push Back

• Florida’s Opt Out Toolbox

• New York Times: Race and the Standardized Testing Wars

• California Teachers’ Association Opt Out Page

• 15 Reasons Why the Seattle School District Should Shelve the MAP® Test—ASAP

• Video: The nonsense of Value Added Measures (VAM)

• This could be huge: Embedded flaw in high stakes test renders it useless in Texas

• Education Radio: How high stakes testing warps self identity

• The National Resolution Against High-Stakes Testing

• What’s wrong with standardized tests?

• Opting out of the testing madness, why and how

• Why opt out of standardized testing

• Opting Out of High Stakes Testing