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DAY ONE: Standardized tests designed to measure student performance are deeply flawed, new evidence suggests.
DAY TWO: Test questions written to deliberately trip up students.
DAY THREE: High noon for Ohio high school students who must pass a new graduation test.
INTERACTIVE
FORUM
EDITORIALS
Flunking the Test: A look at 'No Child Left Behind'
The No Child Left Behind Act will soon allow the government to withhold money from schools based solely on test scores and could block many students from meeting their goals.
Changes planned, but will test problems be solved?
New generation of tests head to schools
LEARN MORE
- The Education Trust advocates education reform
- National Center for Fair & Open Testing
- National Board on Educational Testing and Public Policy monitors whether testing is appropriately used
DAY TWO
- Computer-graded essays full of flaws
- Parents question fairness of misleading exams
- Center for Education Policy studies the impact of high school exit exams
- Manhattan Institute, sponsors research on education testing
DAY ONE
- Flunking the Test: A look at 'No Child Left Behind'
- Districts feeling chaotic impact of new test explosion
- Download past Ohio proficiency and achievement tests, practice tests, study guides
- Read about the No Child Left Behind act
- Achieve Inc. promotes standards and testing as part of school accountability
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