Alfie Kohn, a website about high stakes testing and standards and their impact on students and teachers:
http://www.alfiekohn.org/
The National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest) works to end the misuses and flaws of standardized testing and to ensure that evaluation of students, teachers and schools is fair, open, valid and educationally beneficial:
http://www.fairtest.org/
FairTest's Assessment Reform Network, “a national project created to support parents, teachers, students and others who are working to end the overuse and misuse of standardized testing in public education and to promote authentic forms of assessment.”
http://www.fairtest.org/arn/arn.htm
National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES):
http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/
