Mission Statement:
The Consortium for Equity in Standards and Testing (CTEST) focuses attention on how educational standards, assessments, and tests can be used more fairly.
CTEST's goals are to:
- Help parents, teachers, advocacy groups and other citizens understand standards, assessments, and testing;
- Examine the values and beliefs that underpin various proposals
for standards and testing;
- Provide a place where parents, teachers, advocacy
groups and others can discuss the positive and negative
impact of testing and standards on all students;
- Recommend improvements in standards and testing that would identify and nurture talent, especially among racial, ethnic and linguistic minorities; and,
- Help parents, teachers and advocacy groups develop and disseminate information and resources about standards and testing.
Standards and tests should not be locked gates that deny opportunities to some children. Challenging and fair tests should be the gateways to educational and life opportunities for all our children..
