Ohio drops PARCC; is this a sign of the end?
Ohio gov. approved a budget to remove the state from the PARCC consortium. Big loss personally & for the consortium.
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The NYT looks at scoring the PARCC tests
Our long response to a long article about what happens at Pearson's scoring site in San Antonio, where some of the PARCC tests are scored.
Three faces of the PARCC tests in 2014-15
Teachers have to give students the PARCC tests, students are protesting about the PARCC tests, and even teachers have a few issues.
Mass. students create powerful artwork on testing
A teacher in Mass. gave her art students an assignment: Show how you feel about standardized tests. Powerful, expressive, haunting stuff here.
PARCC tests disrupt school schedules in Ohio
Now that the PARCC tests have finished, we're starting to hear rumblings that the tests disrupted schedules and impaired instruction in our schools.
PARCC tests to be given in 1 window in 2015-16
Time spent on PARCC testing will be shorter in 2015-16, and the tests will be given during one window instead of two, as in 2014-15.
Ohio & Md. move to limit testing
Ohio and Md. lawmakers have taken different paths to a solution, but both have the same goal: reduce testing that only serves to satisfy federal law.
R.I. groups want PARCC-graduation delay
R.I. groups, incl. the ACLU, NCAAP, & Providence Student Union, want to prevent schools from making PARCC tests a graduation requirement until 2020.
Rauner on teachers, unions, PARCC, etc.
Gov Bruce Rauner of IL blasted teachers' unions when he spoke at a seminar for education journalists in Chicago. The teachers' union responded.
IL community colleges to use PARCC for placement
The presidents of IL's community colleges agreed to use students' results on the PARCC tests to place them out of remedial classes that earn no credit.