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Catalyst Magazine, a monthly magazine that provides detailed analysis of Chicago school reform.

Consortium on Chicago School Research, a research organization that studies Chicago school reform.

FairTest, The National Center for Fair and Open Testing, is an advocacy organization working to end the abuses, misuses and flaws of standardized testing and ensure that evaluation of students and workers is fair, open, and educationally sound.

The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, papers presented at the High Stakes Testing Conference held in New York, NY on December 4, 1998.

International Reading Association (IRA), summary of an IRA position statement: High Stakes Assessments in Reading (August 1999).

U.S. Dept. of Education's Office for Civil Rights, archived report, "The Use of Tests as Part of High-Stakes Decision-Making for Students."

Schools Moving Up, helps schools and districts address the immense challenge of raising student achievement in low-performing schools. In an
interactive Web format.

 

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