In his March 26 blog post, “Three Practical Questions About PARCC & SBAC Testing,” Rick Hess raises legitimate questions about how variation in the testing conditions will impact the validity and ...

WEBVTT AND TEACHER EVALUATION SYSTEMS. DESPITE THE BOARD MEETING CANCELLATION ... THE DISTRICT SAYS IT STILL PLANS TO GO AHEAD WITH THE TESTING. ACTION 7 NEWS REPORTER SANDRA RAMIREZ CHECKED IF LOCAL ...

Some built-in student accommodations planned for the common-core tests under development by the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers will not be available during spring 2014 ...

Chicago Public Schools officials announced they will administer the Common Core-aligned tests to all students, after attempting to limit the tests to a small group of students for the first year of ...

The first of two groups of states working to design assessments aligned to the Common Core State Standards has released a draft accommodations manual that outlines the types of test supports that can ...

Superintendent Trisha Kocanda of Winnetka Public Schools in Illinois has written what could be called a “warning” letter to parents, community members and district staff about the PARCC Common Core ...

BOSTON (CBS) - Starting next week, more than half of all elementary and middle school students in Massachusetts will begin taking the new PARCC test. This is a pilot program as officials decide if the ...

This week, Georgia announced it is withdrawing from the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness in College and Career (PARCC), one of two consortia developing standardized tests for the Common Core.

The new PARCC tests are computerized rather than the traditional pencil-and-paper bubble tests. (South Jersey Times file photo) MILLBURN — A district-wide Internet outage today, Monday, March 9, ...

The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), a federally funded testing consortium aligned with Common Core, is in the spotlight once again. Though it administered the ...

To the editor: I have been a Language Arts and social studies teacher, coach and administrator in public, private and corporate schools since 1972. New ideas for passing the collected knowledge from ...

House Republicans want to stop the state from using the education assessments known as the PARCC. The tests have caused a large amount of controversy with critics who say they take up too much time ...