We have heard a request for resources specifically around PARCC (Pearson’s Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers) and the growing resistance to these new high-stakes tests. We will continue to add information here:

• *NEW*  Elementary School Teachers: How PARCC Testing is Affecting Our Classroom; Framingham, Massachusetts.
• Ten reasons to refuse the PARCC test for your child in Maryland
• Sample letter to the community raising PARCC concerns – by Blakely Bundy
• PARCC opt out sign for kids
• Citizens for Public Schools – What We Know: Opting out of PARCC Pilot Tests
• Citizens for Public Schools – PARCC Fact sheets in English and Spanish
• New Jersey parents revolt against new standardized PARCC test
• The 12 Reasons We Oppose the PARCC test from Save Our Schools New Jersey
• Why Our Kids Don’t Like School Anymore: Huffington Post and video by Michael Elliot – a public school parent from Brooklyn, New York.