Turning Challenges into Testing Reform Victories

[Monty Neill <monty@fairtest.org>]

Dear Friends,

FairTest sends you our warmest holiday wishes. We greatly appreciate 
your continued support and look forward to working together in the New Year!

Over the past two-and-a-half decades, we've won major assessment reform 
victories. But, there's much, much more to do.

With your help <https://secure.entango.com/donate/MnrXjT8MQqk> we can 
transform the looming challenges of 2011 into opportunities for further 
success:

. The new Congress, with its emphasis on deficit cutting and local 
control, is less likely to fund costly, top-down, schemes such as "No 
Child Left Untested" and "Race to the Trough." As convener of the Forum 
on Educational Accountability, FairTest is uniquely positioned to 
organize collaborative, winning campaigns for assessment policies that 
promote educational quality and equity while ending federal 
micro-management.

. Budget constraints are also causing many states to reduce their 
expensive standardized exam requirements. FairTest remains the go-to 
resource for grassroots campaigns aiming to replace high-stakes tests 
with better forms of assessment, providing testimony, public education 
tools, and best practices for effective advocacy.

. The explosion of high-priced SAT and ACT coaching courses is 
convincing more schools that these tests are barriers to access for 
low-income and minority students. As the national leader of the 
test-optional movement, FairTest can make a persuasive case that 
dropping admissions and scholarship exam requirements will enhance both 
academic excellence and diversity.

Please help convert 2011 into a year of lasting victories by making the 
largest possible donation 
<https://secure.entango.com/donate/MnrXjT8MQqk> you can or by mailing 
your check to FairTest, 15 Court Sq., Suite 820, Boston, MA 02108

Many thanks for everything you do to advance assessment reform.

Monty Neill Bob Schaeffer

P.S. /Your year-end contribution is fully tax-deductable!/

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