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Study Shows PARCC Does Not Gauge Readiness Better Than MCAS
PARCC has been plugged as being able to gauge readiness better than Massachusetts current assessment – MCAS. A study released on Tuesday last week, which is the first analysis of PARCC’s ability...
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Study: MCAS Less Expensive, More Rigorous and Provides Better Information...
In the wake of an apparent shift by Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education Mitchell Chester making it increasingly likely that Massachusetts will update MCAS rather than adopt English and...
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Massachusetts Education Commissioner Recommends MCAS-PARCC Hybrid
Massachusetts Education Commissioner Mitchell Chester announced today he recommends the state use a “Next Generation MCAS” that would be first used in spring of 2017 and use items from PARCC and the...
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Using Two Assessments Could Cost Massachusetts Some Title 1 Funding
Those who advocated for the Every Student Succeeds Act kept telling us that it was going to restore state and local control. Here is another example that talking point is a complete sham. When...
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Fordham Institutes’s PARCC v. MCAS Report Falls Short
(Pioneer Institute) The Fordham Institute has long been at work on a study of the relative quality of tests produced by the two Common Core-aligned and federally funded consortia (PARCC and SBAC),...
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Massachusetts Common Core Ballot Initiative Stopped in Court
The John Adams Courthouse in Boston, MA is home to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Photo Credit: Swampyank (CC-By-3.0) The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that the language...
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Rhode Island Rejects PARCC for PARCC Hybrid
Rhode Island is ditching PARCC. The Providence Journal reports: Rhode Island is abandoning a controversial standardized test called the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Career...
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Rhode Island Introduces a New Assessment
Back in April, Rhode Island decided to dump PARCC. They partnered with Massachusetts to develop their new assessment to be administered in May that will be shorter than what students took last week....
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With New MCAS-PARCC Hybrid Half of Massachusetts Students Fall Short
Common Core is so rigorous! It’s going to help prepare students for college and career! We’ll see higher rates of student achievement! Well, perhaps not so much. Massachusetts used to be the crème de...
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Co-Author of 1993 MA Ed Reform Act Concerned About Current Policies
Former Massachusetts Senate President Tom Birmingham Photo Credit: Rappaport Center (CC-By-2.0) Massachusetts Education Reform Act co-author and Former Massachusetts Senate President Tom Birmingham,...
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