BOSTON (CBS) - Starting next week, more than half of all elementary and middle school students in Massachusetts will begin taking the new PARCC test. This is a pilot program as officials decide if the ...

WEBVTT TIM: STATE SCHOOL OFFICIALS SAY THEY’RE ON TRACK TO REPLACE THE PARCC TEST WITH AN ASSESSMENT THAT WILL ACHIEVE THE SAME GOAL TO HELP STUDENTS BECOME COLLEGE AND CAREER READY. >> YOU CAN SEE ...

TRENTON-- As New Jersey prepared to debut new standardized tests last year, Barbara LaSaracina thought to herself, "here comes another one." LaSaracina, a 24-year veteran and New Jersey's Teacher of ...

Illinois has begun to move away from the PARCC standardized test, which underpins school accountability in the state. The state board of education last week authorized the release of a proposal ...

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 ...

After millions of dollars spent for online and paper exams, technology improvements and teacher training, it’s not clear how long the two-year-old state PARCC exams will last and in what format. The ...

WEBVTT CAREERS OR PARCC FOR SHORT. STUDENTS TOOK THE TEST THIS YEAR FOR THE FIRST TIME. DONNA: STATE SCHOOL OFFICIALS SAY BECAUSE IT'S STILL A WORK IN PROGRESS, THEY'RE NOT SURPRISED BY THE LOW SCORES ...

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.

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 ...

Maryland is one step closer to replacing its much-talked-about PARCC test. It's a test given to more than a half a million students, and one that's come under quite a bit of scrutiny. Andrei Arlovski ...