This will be the first school year in which most elementary and middle-school students take state-required tests online.
The decision to award a one-year, renewable contract to the nonprofit that manages the PARCC consortium impacts 172 schools serving 74,000 students.
About 200 educators will learn more about the common-core standards, which are implemented in American-curriculum private schools in the Middle East.
How should teacher-educators, mentors, and coaches prepare their teachers for today’s world of testing? While there’s a lot of attention paid to progressive education concepts, the reality is that teachers are going to have to prepare students for high-stakes testing.
Smarter Balanced will review the validity of test results from three states that experienced disruptions on their tests last year.
Fifteen states and the District of Columbia have adopted Next Generation Science Standards, which could shape schools’ demand for content for years to come.
The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium has arranged an independent evaluation of an open-source delivery platform it paid the American Institutes for Research to develop.
A vendor blamed for recent disruptions in online assessments will pay financial penalties, under an agreement with Nevada’s state Attorney General.
Fifty-four percent of public school parents oppose having teachers in their communities follow the common-core standards, a PDK/Gallup poll found.
Knewton has established partnerships with companies in about 20 countries outside the United States, where demand for ed-tech is growing.