Corrected: An earlier version of this article mischaracterized how the Council of Chief State School Officers came to possess PARCC test questions. Before it disbanded, the PARCC consortium ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, PARCC, practice tests. (Ty Wright/AP) As schools in Hunterdon near summer vacation, one thing that's out of the way is the much ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...