How do you respond to the competing pressures of school accountability, high-stakes testing, and classroom assessment and instruction? This updated collection of articles from The Reading Teacher can help。 You'll find tools for building school assessment policies, helping students succeed on high-stakes tests, using assessment to inform your instruction, drawing students into the assessment process, and choosing assessment protocols for individual students or groups of students。 A list of articles for further reading and the IRA position statement on high-stakes testing will further broaden your knowledge base of assessment issues。