Harry Feder of FairTest spoke with Elizabeth Heaton of Bright Horizons College Coach about the role of testing in the admissions process and how it impacts student decisions, and the approach applicants can take to have the best experience in the process. https://ow.ly/1SNT50Ut1lA
FairTest
Education
Brooklyn, New York 241 followers
We are an advocacy organization fighting against misuse of standardized tests and for better educational assessments.
About us
FairTest works to end the misuses and flaws of standardized testing and to ensure that evaluation of students, teachers and schools is fair, open, valid and educationally beneficial. We are an advocacy organization that provides information and technical assistance to grassroots organization, federal, state and local policymakers, and media with the goal of changing assessment and accountability policy in K-12 education to be less reliant on standardized tests. FairTest promotes the use of authentic performance based assessment as a way of fostering deeper learning and critical thinking and creating equitable culturally responsive education practice. FairTest works toward the reduction and elimination of standardized tests as high stakes instruments. We have been instrumental in the movement away from using standardized testing in college and graduate admissions. Our encouragement of test optional and test free admissions policies has helped result in over 80% of four-year colleges adopting such policies.
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- Education
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Brooklyn, New York
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1985
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Brooklyn, New York 11238, US
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We break down the reasons behind the further attrition of state exit exams. Policy makers, parents and students want more meaningful indicators that students have the skills and knowledge to move on to the real world of citizenship, college & career. https://ow.ly/tCl550Uq1Xw
As states show graduation exams to the exit, what’s next?
k12dive.com
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Harry Feder of FairTest spoke with Elizabeth Heaton of Bright Horizons College Coach about the role of testing in the admissions process and how it impacts student decisions, and the approach applicants can take to have the best experience in the process. https://ow.ly/1SNT50Ut1lA
FairTest.org; Mentally Preparing for Decisions; Apprenticeships
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We break down the reasons behind the further attrition of state exit exams. Policy makers, parents and students want more meaningful indicators that students have the skills and knowledge to move on to the real world of citizenship, college & career. https://ow.ly/tCl550Uq1Xw
As states show graduation exams to the exit, what’s next?
k12dive.com
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We break down the reasons behind the further attrition of state exit exams. Policy makers, parents and students want more meaningful indicators that students have the skills and knowledge to move on to the real world of citizenship, college & career. https://ow.ly/tCl550Uq1Xw
As states show graduation exams to the exit, what’s next?
k12dive.com
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States continue to move away from graduation exams. Healthy realization that a diploma should be more meaningful than a single high stakes test. https://ow.ly/c5Ri50UlRLV #HighStakesTesting #FutureOfEducation
High school exit exams dwindle to about half a dozen states
yahoo.com
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States continue to move away from graduation exams. Healthy realization that a diploma should be more meaningful than a single high stakes test. https://ow.ly/c5Ri50UlRLV #HighStakesTesting #FutureOfEducation
High school exit exams dwindle to about half a dozen states
yahoo.com
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Peter Greene affirms that the SAT/ACT are not required for admission to the vast majority (over 90%) of colleges. Outsized press for the few schools that have reinstated requirement despite new study showing elite, highly rejective colleges "not unearthing many rough diamonds" with the SAT. https://ow.ly/zBhF50UcjOn
Should High School Juniors Stop Worrying About The SAT And ACT?
social-www.forbes.com
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Excellent analysis of EdTrust report advocating doubling down on #ESSA (maybe even NCLB) accountability measures to get states and locals to place of equity. This strategy has been an abject educational and social justice failure. Definition of insanity? https://lnkd.in/ewfwYkks
NEPC Review: Reassessing ESSA Implementation: An Equity Analysis of School Accountability Systems (EdTrust, September 2024)
nepc.colorado.edu
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Thanks Stephen Burd for setting the record straight. Despite the rank advocacy of the NYT, the vast majority (over 90%) of colleges have maintained test optional and test free policies. Enables greater diversity at no cost to quality. https://lnkd.in/ecE8EEgh
The SAT’s Not-Quite-Comeback
newamerica.org