Word: fairtest
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That question is being asked by an increasing number of parents, school administrators and civil rights organizations in response to the Bush Administration's proposals for a national system of exams called the American Achievement Tests. FairTest, an organization based in Cambridge, Mass., has already written Congress asking legislators to withhold funding from the Bush program, arguing that it will not improve U.S. education and might damage it. "Politicians cannot simply mandate new tests and expect education to improve magically," says FairTest associate director Monty Neill. That opinion was echoed last week in Miami Beach, at the annual convention...
...students. "It is still an open question whether we can create a fair test," says Thomas Romberg, a University of Wisconsin mathematics professor who spent six years helping develop a set of widely praised national math standards. Beverly Cole, education director for the N.A.A.C.P., which is a member of FairTest, admits she is "paranoid" about the idea. "There's a knee-jerk response on the part of minorities against national testing because we've suffered the most from them in the past...