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What we can do together …

• Advocate for multiple measures to describe student success and to make decisions about a child’s schooling and college options.
• Advocate for a broader definition of accountability to include measures beyond test scores.
• Let school officials know that you object to the expensive method of testing all students and that the same information about the schools’ performance can be obtained from testing a sample of students from each school.
• When working across racial groups and sectors, ensure that accountability discussions do not focus on blaming parents, students, or communities, but rather, focus on shared responsibility for collaboration and action.