Three Groups Apply for Race to Top Test Grants

By Stephen Sawchuk

Three state consortia will vie for $350 million in federal financing to design assessments aligned to the recently unveiled common-core standards, according to applications submitted Wednesday to the U.S. Department of Education.

Part of the Race to the Top program, the competition aims to spur states to band together to create measures of academic achievement that are comparable across states.

Two consortia—the SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader , which consists of 31 states, and the Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader , or PARCC, which consists of 26 states—will compete for the bulk of the funding, $320 million, to...

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