Guide to high stakes testing in CA

[Harold Berlak <hberlak@yahoo.com>]

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People's Guide to High Stakes Testing in California

Basic Information on the No Child Left Behind Act and California high  
stakes testing and teacher credential     	regulations

§    Advocacy and Taking Action

A handout prepared for Open Forum Session NCLB, California Testing  
Laws and Regulations, and Taking Action 6th Annual Teachers for  
Social Justice Conference October 14, 2006.
Contents

1. In brief:

California testing laws and regulations.

California teacher credential regulations

No Child Left Behind regulations

2. Developing your message

Talking Points

Bracey’s Seven Deadly Absurdities of NCLB

Does the No Child Left Behind Act Improve Schools and Increase  
Opportunity?

Exit Exam:  A Public Policy Disaster of Epic Proportions

Every Child Left Ignorant; No More Excuses for Reading First

3.  Democratic testing and assessment

Five principles of Democratic Assessment

Deborah Meier’s Six Alternative Assumptions to High-Stakes Testing

4. Taking action

Teach-ins

Shaping public opinion

Working to change legislation

Direct Action, Protest, Boycott

5. Websites

                                                        Compiled and  
edited by Harold Berlak with Dawn Mermer and Kathy Emery. October 2006