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CES e-ssential NEWS (plain text)
CES Regents Action
| Subject | CES ACTION ALERT |
| From Email Address | news@essentialschools.org |
| Test Email Address | bbradshaw@essentialschools.org; akerins@essentialschools.org; cohenlew@comcast.net |
| Date Sent | 02/05/2005 |
| Message: | Dear Friend of CES,
The CES Center in New York City urgently needs your help. CES National urges you to support the following request from the New York Performance Standards Consortium:
Dear Colleague:
As many of you know, our CES schools in New York pioneered the use of a performance-based accountability system in lieu of high stakes standardized tests. The New York schools have been engaged in a seven year battle with our State Department of Education to continue using a waiver from the state standardized tests that was granted by the previous state commissioner.
Many of you have visited our schools, seen our work, and attended workshops that we have offered at Fall Forum. For our schools to continue working well we need to roll back high stakes testing policies and continue using our performance-based system.
Recently, with help from national experts ( Linda Darling- Hammond, Stanford, Michelle Fine, CUNY Graduate Center, and Joe DiMartino, Northeast Regional Lab at Brown), we proposed that New York State adopt a system of multiple measures that would include performance-based assessments, a minimal number of standardized tests (to meet the requirement of NCLB), attendance, grades, and teacher assessments.
Obviously such a proposal has national implications. If we are successful in New York, there may be hope for schools across the country to adopt more effective assessment
strategies. Now we need your help to communicate to the Regents how important
our schools are to the national conversation about effective education.
Please click on the link below to send an email to the Regents and to the State Assembly Education Chair Steven Sanders urging them to renew our waiver.
Thanks very much in advance for your support.
http://www.essentialschools.org/cs/about/create/ces_regents
Click this link to send a letter
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