Tell Lawmakers to Say NO to an SAT for 12-year-olds
To: The President of the United States, Your U.S. Senators and Your U.S. House Representative, see more...
Started by: Clay Burell
The College Board is planning to push "ReadiStep," a "pre-pre-SAT", on eighth-graders in American schools. If they succeed, it will siphon at least $10 per student from education budgets - for no good reason, and several bad ones.
We already have the PSAT for ninth graders. PSAT stands for pre-SAT. ReadiStep would be another pre-SAT administered one year earlier. Redundant and costly.
Also, local, state, and federal governments are already using and/or developing standardized tests that will serve the same function. The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), and state and local proficiency assessments already confront students with enough standardized tests, and consume enough tax dollars, without the College Board foisting another one on the system. Again: redundant.
Finally, high-stakes and much-hyped standardized tests arguably do students a disservice by making education an aversion, and causing them to be more concerned with how they score than with what they learn and discover in schools.
Tell your local, state, and federal lawmakers to say NO to ReadiStep.
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225 Signatures Thus Far!
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Jennifer Bland
Rogers, AR
- Sent letter to Blanche Lincoln , Mark Pryor , Barack Obama , Mike Beebe , John Boozman , Cecile Bledsoe , Debra Hobbs and Arne Duncan (US DoE)
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Sandy Torres
Conifer, CO
- Sent letter to Artur Davis , Ed Perlmutter , Barack Obama , James Kerr , Mark Udall , Mike Coffman , Michael Bennet , Ken Summers , Cheri Gerou and Arne Duncan (US DoE)
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marissa abramovic
Pittsburgh, PA
- Sent letter to Jack Murtha , Timothy Murphy , Barack Obama , Arlen Specter , Bob Casey , Marc Gergely , Joseph Petrarca , James Casorio , John Pallone and Arne Duncan (US DoE)
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Kathy Jackson
North Ridgeville, OH
- Sent letter to Betty Sutton , Barack Obama , Sherrod Brown , Ted Strickland , Sue Morano , Matt Lundy , George Voinovich and Arne Duncan (US DoE)
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Jocelyn Koopmann
Kangaroo Flat, Australia
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Soodle Billy
Co.Dublin, Ireland
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pierluigi bonatesta
Cagliari, Italy
- Sent letter to Richard Shelby , Jeff Sessions , Barack Obama , Bob Riley and Arne Duncan (US DoE)
- Aug 21
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Lily Rocco
New York, NY
- Sent letter to Carolyn Maloney , Barack Obama , Chuck Schumer , Liz Krueger , Jonathan Bing , Jose Serrano , David Paterson , Micah Kellner and Arne Duncan (US DoE)
- Aug 15
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Jason Bowman
Sacramento, CA
- Sent letter to Doris Matsui , Dianne Feinstein , Barbara Boxer , Barack Obama , Arnold Schwarzenegger , Darrell Steinberg , Dave Jones and Arne Duncan (US DoE)
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Dana Hoffman
Marble, MN
- Sent letter to Barack Obama , Amy Klobuchar , Tim Pawlenty , James Oberstar , Tom Anzelc , Tom Saxhaug , Al Franken and Arne Duncan (US DoE)
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