PARCC
Assessment
Illinois' Early PARCC Results: Fewer Than 40 Percent Meet Expectations
Test results aren't yet final, because they don't include all groups of students, or the results of tests taken with paper and pencil.
Assessment
News in Brief
PARCC Agrees to Release Cutoff Scores for Tests
Updated "mock" score reports on its website now show the actual cutoff points that mark the thresholds between levels of mastery, said PARCC officials.
Standards & Accountability
One Set of PARCC Test Results, Two Different Descriptions in Ohio
The preliminary results from the Buckeye State also reveal how Ohio and PARCC will describe the results differently.
Assessment
UPDATED: PARCC Sets Cut Scores for Test, But Won't Say What They Are
The consortium's governing board says it can't disclose cut scores, or what portion of students performed at each level of the test, until states finalize their test data.
Assessment
PARCC Decides on High School Cut Scores
The testing consortium approves cut scores for the high school test, but can't disclose yet what they are, since the point system--and spring performance data--are still being finalized.
Standards & Accountability
PARCC Sets High School Cut Scores
PARCC votes to approve cut scores for the high school test, but can't disclose yet what they are, since the point system--and spring performance data--are still being finalized.
Federal
Tough Choices for PARCC as States Drop Out
The number of states still officially part of the common-core testing consortium is half of what it once was, and that poses challenges, especially when it comes to costs.
States
As PARCC Sheds States, Is the Common-Core Test Toast or Tougher Than it Looks?
PARCC has plans to survive, but the fate of the common-core testing consortium remains very much up in the air as the 2015-16 school year approaches.
States
N.Y. Has 'No Current Plans' to Give PARCC; Ark. Ditches the Consortium Test
The Arkansas state board voted to use the ACT Aspire test instead, concluding a public spat over which common-core exam the state would use next year.
Education
Opinion
Sad Days in PARCCland
PARCC, built on the dream of a national scale standardized testing system, has been dumped by yet another state. Governor John Kasich of Ohio yesterday signed a budget that severs Ohio's connection to the PARCC consortium. The dream is dying.
States
Ohio Poised to Ditch PARCC Common-Core Test in Budget Sent to Gov. Kasich
House Bill 64, the biennial 2015-17 budget that lawmakers sent to Gov. John Kasich, prohibits the state from purchasing the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) exam
Assessment
PARCC Facing Challenges as Ohio, Arkansas Back Away
PARCC faces the loss of two states, but says it is optimistic it can maintain the test cost for remaining states.
Standards & Accountability
PARCC Showdown in Arkansas as Governor Tries to Kill Test
Earlier this month, the Arkansas board of education voted 7-1 to continue using the PARCC exam, but Gov. Asa Hutchinson is refusing to go along.
Standards & Accountability
Arkansas Board Rejects Switch From PARCC to ACT, Defying Gov. Hutchinson
The Arkansas Times reported that the board's 7-1 vote not to switch to the ACT Aspire test for 2015-16 school year was a "surprising rebuke" of Gov. Asa Hutchinson.
