“High-stakes testing is doing children grievous mental and emotional harm. Parents Across America has gathered overwhelming evidence of the destructive psychological impact of test anxiety. For your children’s sake, read and be outraged!”
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Press release *** For immediate release
Parents and educators stand together against growing test stress in children
March 8, 2016
Contacts: Julie Woestehoff, Interim Executive Director, Parents Across America, 773-175-3989
Laura Bowman, leader of PAA-Roanoke Valley (VA), 540-819-6385
Danielle Arnold-Schwartz, leader of PAA- Suburban Philadelphia (PA), 215-498-2549
Today, Parents Across America announces the endorsement of its position paper, “Parents Stand up Against Test Stress,” by such prominent educators as Alfie Kohn, Jonathan Kozol, and Nancy Carlsson-Paige (list follows).
PAA has also contacted the National Institutes of Health and the American Academy of Pediatrics asking that they investigate our concerns that high-stakes standardized testing has become a health hazard for our nation’s public school children.
According to Dr. Isabel Nuñez, Associate Professor in the Center for Policy and Social Justice, Concordia University…
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