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CCSE News Updates

January 12, 2004:

• Urgent High-Stakes Testing Memo - NEW

November 26, 2003:

• Governor's Education Reform Hearing Registration

November 19, 2003:

• NCLB Apologists Ratchet Up the Rhetoric

November 19, 2003:

• News from Public Agenda and Ed. Trust

August 30, 2003:

• CCSE and Upcoming Hearings

August 26, 2003:

• Heads Up -- National TV Documentary on Testing Flaws -- Tuesday, September 2

October 26, 2002:

• [ccse_core] Another Victory

September 16, 2002:

• [arn2-strategy] LA Times warning on ESEA

July 26, 2002:

• [ccse_core] POST article on Hearings

July 6, 2002:

• Story from NYPOST.COM on Regent calling for independent hearings

July 5, 2002:

• Legislature to examine dropouts, high-stakes tests

June 28, 2002:

• Fwd: The College Board Plans SAT Changes

June 27, 2002:

• [arn2-strategy] Rethinking Schools Statement on Voucher Decision

June 26, 2002:

• Education Forum Planning Meeting Report

June 25, 2002:

• [ccse_core] NCLB and George Orwell

June 24, 2002:

• [ccse_core] Commissioner's Evaluation
• [ccse_core] 70% of vocational students fail Grade 10 literacy test -- Canada
• [ccse_core] NYTimes.com Article: 'No Child Left Behind' Is Hit Song With Bush Team

June 20, 2002:

• Article in the Buffalo News

June 18, 2002:

• New York State Legislative Hearings

June 10, 2002:

• [arn2-strategy] Anna Quindlen on Testing and Literature

June 7, 2002:

• [arn2-strategy] Time Mag on testing wars
• [ccse_core] Commissioner's Evaluation

June 6, 2002:

• Newsday Clip: Regents Are Serving Up Bland Exam Fare

June 5, 2002:

• [arn2-strategy] Letter re: Regents exams
• Mills Folds

June 4, 2002:

• Legislation

June 1, 2002:

• NY Times- Regents English Exams Dishonest

May 28, 2002:

• Commissioner's Evaluation

May 25, 2002:

• Summer Rethinking Schools Critiques ESEA and Examines White Privilege

May 13, 2002:

• Letter to Rochester Democrat & Chronicle

May 10, 2002:

• Testing sessions at NCEA conference
• Week of May 6th Events

May 5, 2002:

• Test Scores and Global Competitiveness

May 1, 2002:

• Consortium event

April 30, 2002:

• Conference Flyer: May 8th Forum

April 16, 2002:

• Students Against Testing 'action packs'
• The Depressed Child
• Another new bad trend?
• Study: High Stakes Tests DON'T Improve Learning

• Fact Sheet: Limits of Standardized Tests
• Act Now on ESEA Regulations
• Fact Sheet: Dangerous Consequences

• Brief for the Consortium's appeal of our lawsuit

• Reply to NYTimes article
• Lawsuit decision issued

• Consortium lawsuit update - Albany's court proceedings

• Important Commission Report

Associated Links

• NY Performance Assessment Consortium
  free.freespeech.org/ccse/

• NYPSC v. Mills Memorandum of Law
  free.freespeech.org/ccse/Documents/Weil%20Brief.htm

• FairTest: The National Center for Fair & Open Testing
  www.fairtest.org

For legislator addresses, go to www.assembly.state.ny.us and www.senate.state.ny.us. If possible, send copies of your letters to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, Education Committee Co-Chair, Assemblyman Steven Sanders, and Senator John Kuhl, Education Committee Co-Chair. Please send a copy to Dan as well; but don't list him on your "copies to".

Humor

• The Onion (http://www.theonion.com/):
  
  February 6, 2002:
  Bush Earmarks 1.5 Billion Gold Stars For Education
  http://www.theonion.com/onion3804/bush_earmarks.html

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