Open Letter to Obama from Education Researchers Says, "NCLB Needs Less Testing When Rewritten"

According to Valerie Strauss, "More than 500 education researchers around the country have signed an open letter  to Congress and the Obama administration about how the No Child Left Behind law should be rewritten, saying that they 'strongly urge departing from test-focused reforms that not only have been discredited for high-stakes decisions, but also have shown to widen, not close, gaps and inequities.'"

If you are an education professor or researcher, you can add your signature to the letter by February 20, 2015. I did. I word about that:

For some reason, I'm listed as such:

"James Bucky Carter, Ph.D., Independent Scholar, Formerly of Washington State University, Pullman, and the University of Texas at El Paso Dean, The Graduate School of Education, The University at Buffalo, SUNY."

I fear my input might have merged with another signer. So, just to clarify, I am not a Dean at UTEP or at SUNY, nor have I ever been employed by any SUNY entity, to my knowledge. Not that I have anything against SUNY, though. Indeed, I still regret not taking a position offered at one of their fine campuses a few years ago. 

Click *here* to read the full story, see many of the researchers who have signed already, and to follow a link to the letter and then add your signature and credentials. 

Hopefully the correct affiliations will publish. ;)