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Standards! Not Standardization!

Alternatives to High-Stakes Testing

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Participating Partners

Coalition for Common Sense in Education (CCSE)
Learn more about this grassroots group based in New York.

Coalition for Quality Education
The Coalition for Quality Education, a group of successful urban, suburban, and rural schools, opposes inflexible state and federal plans that rely on standardized high-stakes tests and undermine effective teaching and local authority.

Scarsdale School Board Statement
Read their statement on testing and assessment.

STOP: Westchester Parent Group
Parents taking action.



Diane Ravitch, an education historian at New York University, is writing a book about sensitivity reviews in educational publishing and views them as censorship. She said of the New York controversy: "The scary part of this whole episode is that it may discourage test-makers from using classical literature at all."