Three Groups Submit Applications for Race to Top Assessment Grants
Winners are expected to align tests to the common standards.
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 last month 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
, which consists of 31 states, and the Partnership for the
Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers
, or PARCC, which consists of 26 states—will compete for the bulk of the funding, $320 million,...
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