Rhode Island students who took the 2014-15 PARCC exams by computer tended to score lower than those who took the exams by paper, raising further questions about the validity and usefulness of results ...

PARCC will now offer states the option of buying parts of its testing system and choosing their own vendor. Previously, states could purchase only the entire system, and they had to use Pearson for ...

State test scores took a nosedive as students struggled to pass the first PARCC exams last school year, with some of Illinois’ most elite schools seeing a sharp drop in performance compared with the ...

The political fight over the PARCC exam has an important new stakeholder: The class of 2019. Some 170,000 high school students, including juniors, thought they had fulfilled the requirements to ...

In the second year of the New Jersey public schools' administration of the controversial Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, better known as the PARCC, protests against ...

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 ...

The CMAS - Colorado Measures of Academic Success – is part of a consortium of states known as the Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Career (PARCC). Students in grades 3-12 ...

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 ...

NOT THE POPULAR KIDS: The number of states planning to use the PARCC and Smarter Balanced those tests to measure student's progress has dropped from 45 in 2011 to 20 in 2016, Education Next reports.

BOSTON — Details on the cost or composition of a hybrid student assessment exam that could be launched in 2017 have not been worked out, but material developed by the PARCC consortium will likely make ...

TRENTON-- As New Jersey prepared to debut new standardized tests last year, Barbara LaSaracina thought to herself, "here comes another one." LaSaracina, a 24-year veteran and New Jersey's Teacher of ...

While New Jersey’s so-called “achievement gap” between rich and poor and white and minorities has always been wide, the chasm appears even wider based on the first year of the new PARCC testing. The ...