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 ...

TRENTON, N.J. -- New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy says his mind is unchanged about phasing out a controversial standardized test despite legislative concerns over dropping the exams. Murphy spoke Tuesday ...

To the editor: I have been a Language Arts and social studies teacher, coach and administrator in public, private and corporate schools since 1972. New ideas for passing the collected knowledge from ...

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 ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) – When Rhode Island public school students begin taking their standardized test in May, they’ll be staring at an exam that looks similar to the one they’ve been taking for the ...

TRENTON-- State education officials released the school-by-school results of the PARCC exams Thursday, giving students and parents a glimpse of how each grade fared on the third year of the ...

A pop third-grade math quiz — question No. 4 from a PARCC practice test for grade 3, unit 2 math that anyone can access online: Which three statements can be represented by the expression 24 [divided ...

Math and reading exams known as PARCC spawned angst and outright rebellion when the tests launched in 2015, ushering in a new era of state testing in Illinois public schools. But that new era appears ...

Indian Prairie School District 204 and Naperville School District 203 continue to perform above the state average on assessment tests. Both districts statistically saw very little change over the ...

Last week state New Jersey Education Commissioner David Hespe said he would hold Pearson accountable for the one-day crash of New Jersey’s PARCC testing. This week the Christie administration is going ...

In the face of rising opposition to testing, the PARCC consortium has decided to carve 90 minutes off its 10- to 11-hour-long assessment, and shift the start of testing to later in the school year.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) – Another school year, another batch of poor test scores for Rhode Island. The latest results for the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) ...