Newly sworn-in New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy announced last week as Governor-Elect that it is time for the Garden State to get rid of PARCC as their state-wide assessment.
Colorado Senate Bill Seeks to Protect Students Who Opt-Out From Assessments
SB18-011, filed this week in the Colorado Senate, seeks to ensure that students whose parents opt them out of assessments do not face punitive measures at school.
Arizona House Bill Would Require High School Juniors to Take ACT or SAT
HB 2037, a bill filed in the Arizona House of Representatives, if passed would not require high school juniors to take AzMerit or the AIMS Science test. Instead, they would take a college-readiness exam like ACT or SAT.
An Open Letter to New Hampshire Education Commissioner Edelblut
Ann Marie Banfield: Parents want to know that their children can compute math problems.They are not sending their children to school for mental health evaluations, especially without parental knowledge or consent.
The Assessments Are Rigged
Wendy Hart: Instead of wondering how kids are doing on state assessments and whether a school is “good” based on the assessment scores, we need to be asking what are these assessments supposed to be measuring and how do we know they really are measuring what they claim?
Maryland Delays Requiring Students to Pass PARCC to Graduate
The Maryland State Board of Education will not require students to pass PARCC in high school in order to graduate until 2024.
New Hampshire Sees Decline in Math and ELA Proficiency
The New Hampshire Department of Education released last year’s Smarter Balanced and SAT scores which showed a decline in math and ELA proficiency.
Colorado: Another Example of Federal “Flexibility”
The Feds rejected Colorado’s state accountability system that did not penalize schools with high opt-out rates, now the state will have two systems.
Indiana’s Assessment Woes
The Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette highlights in a recent editorial the testing woes that Indiana currently faces that include a problem with the new vendor.
Less Than Half of California 3rd Graders Being Proficient in Math is Hope?
California’s third-graders in 2017 have been under Common Core since the beginning, and still, only 47 percent meet or exceed the standards.
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