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Telling the Truth about Testing: A Challenge to Teachers and Parents
Please share your experiences with the FCAT and help us educate Florida citizens
about the ways in which FCAT cannibalizes the curriculum, hampers creative
teaching, penalizes poor test-takers, traumatizes children, and turns schools
into giant test prep centers. School children across the country are speaking
out against test abuse. Let's stand with them. Because of the repressive
atmosphere created by high stakes testing, we will protect your anonymity if
your job is at stake.
FCAT not a good measure of yearly performance
Exposing the Truth About FCAT Prep. By 4th Grade Teacher in Palm Beach County
Young Men and Women of Admirable Character--Held Hostage by the State of Florida By Pakita Leone, teacher
Longtime Volusia educators Bill Archer and Sandra Blackburn share their experiences.
A Teenager's Complaint: "Gypped out of a good education" by FCAT By Renee D., Sarasota, FL
Drawing by Florida music teacher Jeffrey Henson
Refusing to Sacrifice Our Son on the Altar of FCAT Insanity By Ru'e Lam, parent
FCAT: Damaging to My
Daughter
How I Feel
About the FCAT
The Folly of Using FCAT
as the Sole Measure of Ability
By
Seminole County teacher Chris Spiliotis By A Parent February 2, 2007
By Brevard County parent Chris Peters. February 1, 2007
Hounded About
Reading
FCAT Demolition
Program Volusia County school counselor Bill Archer describes the negative impact of high stakes testing on his school community.
One mother's FCAT battle at
capitol
FCAT stresses Absence of FCAT Accommodations for Child with Disability Drives Parent to Consider Home Schooling
By A Hillsborough Parent FCAT Nightmares Turn Schools into Halls of Fear The mother of a third grader newly arrived in Florida tells of being ambushed by FCAT nightmare.
Concerned Parent: FCAT Deprives Children of Proper Education
Major Test Anxiety Plagues Third Grader A Sumter County mother shares her family's trials with FCAT, which include severe test anxiety for a third grader.
Trapped and labeled by one test -- a Pasco teacher's story
Sarasota Family Devastated Once Again A Sarasota parent has contributed her family's story of FCAT devastation
FCAT Drives Family into Private School A Martin County Parent is compelled to take her son out of public school to avoid FCAT abuse.
Marian Wright Edelman reveals the dangers of a one-size-fits-all curriculum
Teaching to the Test Narrows Curriculum, Handicaps Learners Stacie Ramie, a Palm Beach Speech-Language Pathologist, assesses the damage done by teaching to the test.
Escambia Parent's Letter to DOE Creates Vivid Picture of Impact of FCAT on Family
Lara McKnight, an outspoken critic of FCAT from Pensacola, has written a
powerful letter to a DOE official.
FCAT Trauma Overwhelms
Fourth Grader
Volusia Teacher's Response to DOE Form Letter
FCAT: The stakes are
too high FCAR's Volusia rep Stephanie Parnell scores with another great letter to the editor.
Teacher to resign rather than support state's plan that "exploits the helpless for political gain" This letter came to FCAR vice president Marion Brady in response to his column "Amateurs amok - call in the pros," published in the Orlando Sentinel on March 27, 2005.
With permission of the authors and their parents, we are pleased to feature the text of two entries in a recent Tropicana Speech Contest. The writers/speakers, Alexis Harman and Joshua Salas, are fifth graders at Forest Hills Elementary in Tampa.
By "A Florida Teacher" A Florida high school teacher's heartbreaking account of how FCAT prep has supplanted a rich curriculum in her classes. FCAT Mania Preempts Black History Month! More from "A Florida Teacher"
Another Florida teacher gives us an inside look at the negative effects of FCAT on curriculum.
A Parent's Story: My Child Can't Sleep Because of the FCAT
By Palm Beach Parent
A Tallahassee Dog Writes the DOE About FCAT FCAT Humor
A teacher from the Panhandle shares an FCAT story.
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