State Consortium Scales Back Common-Assessment Design
PARCC replaces required language arts and math tests with optional ones
A student-achievement test under consideration by nearly half of states has been redesigned to ease concerns that it would cost too much, shape curriculum, and eat up too much instructional time.
The change was announced by the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or PARCC , one of two state consortia using federal Race to the Top funds to craft shared assessments. The tests are for the common academic standards in mathematics and English/language arts that most states have adopted.
Currently, 24 states and the District of Columbia belong to PARCC. Thirty belong to the other group, the SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium . More than half the states in each group have pledged to use the tests, while others—including a half-dozen that belong to both groups—are...
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