How You Can Build Support for the National Resolution on High-Stakes Testing!

Submitted by fairtest on July 3, 2012 - 2:31pm
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Here are sample letters for you to use in encouraging friends, local school boards, allied organizations, and state and national legislators to endorse the Resolution. There are also sample letters to the editor and op-eds. We encourage you to submit these to your local paper or blogs.

Sample letters to friends and others:

  •     Letter to friends and colleagues
  •     Letter to local school board
  •     Letter to local PTA/PTO, civic and other organizations
  •     Letter to state and federal legislators

Sample letters to the editor and op-ed columns

  •     Sample letter to editor (short)
  •     Sample letter to editor (longer)
  •     Op-ed published in Charlotte (NC)
     

More than 800 four-year colleges and universities do not use the SAT or ACT to admit substantial numbers of bachelor-degree applicants.

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Find out why and how schools go "Test Optional."

What's New at FairTest

  • FairTest Testimony on ESEA Reauthorization to Senate HELP Committee.
  • Write Congress to demand less testing, an end to high stakes.
  • FEA Recommendations for ESEA on Assessment, Accountability and School Improvement, Jan. 2015

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