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 ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Just as the weather warms up, it's test time for Illinois students. All are required to take the Partnership for Assessment for Readiness for College and Careers, known as PARCC. Many ...

ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – A lot of parents have a problem with the PARCC Test and are opting out, saying their kids don’t need to take the test. “It’s not accurate,” Cheryl Florence said. Florence is not a ...

TRENTON, N.J. -- New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy says his mind is unchanged about phasing out a controversial standardized test despite legislative concerns over dropping the exams. Murphy spoke Tuesday ...

TRENTON-- State education officials released the school-by-school results of the PARCC exams Thursday, giving students and parents a glimpse of how each grade fared on the third year of the ...

A pop third-grade math quiz — question No. 4 from a PARCC practice test for grade 3, unit 2 math that anyone can access online: Which three statements can be represented by the expression 24 [divided ...

Math and reading exams known as PARCC spawned angst and outright rebellion when the tests launched in 2015, ushering in a new era of state testing in Illinois public schools. But that new era appears ...

We’re smack dab in the middle of PARCC season, which is just a colossal waste of time for students and teachers and does nothing to further the education of our little New Jerseyans. Thankfully, the ...

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 ...