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 PARCC assessment consortium has outlined plans for a major restructuring which is designed to make it easier for states to use its test content, and also to ensure its own long-term survival. The ...

PARCC is doing some deep soul-searching, with its future at stake. It’s figuring out how it should reorganize to survive the coming years, and who should run it. The most recent phase of that process ...

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 ...

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 ...

BAYONNE-- As George Christiana's daughter was taking her scheduled PARCC algebra I exam on Tuesday afternoon, she thought the questions seemed too easy, he said. There was a good reason why: The test ...

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 ...

CLIFTON, N.J. (CBSNewYork) -- One New Jersey mother is upset after she received what appeared to be a test score for a controversial student exam that her son didn't take. As CBS2's Christine Sloan ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...