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-- During the first two years of New Jersey's new standardized tests, state education officials said they knew they had a problem: Students who didn't care about the exams could blow them off ...

In his March 26 blog post, “Three Practical Questions About PARCC & SBAC Testing,” Rick Hess raises legitimate questions about how variation in the testing conditions will impact the validity and ...

Legislative leaders asked Repollet to slow down the implementation of the PARCC phase out. Legislative leaders expressed exasperation at a Joint Education Committee meeting as they asked Gov. Phil ...

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.

The PARCC assessment consortium has outlined plans for a major restructuring which is designed to make it easier for states to use its test content, and also to ensure its own long-term survival. The ...