PARCC is touting two new radio spots that feature a couple of Teacher of the Year winners touting the wonderfulness of the PARCC. The Nat...

As states continue to brace themselves for the release of crappy PARCC scores , now is a good time to look, again, at the PARCC Levels of St...

The folks at PARCC have set cut scores . You just don't need to know what they are. The one published cut score is the one that draws ...

Fox News Sunday took a little under four minutes to provide some uncritical promotional time for PARCC, using their "Power Player of t...

You just can't make this stuff up. Pearson VUE is the division of the massive corporation that actually delivers tests to a computer ...

Well, this is pretty awesome. PARCC has a video explainer (which I guess is more high tech than a mansplainer) intended to help us all under...

Sooo many folks are Deeply Concerned about the Honesty Gap . Just check out twitter Parents and educators deserve accurate data about h...

When I was in tenth grade, I took a course called Biological Sciences Curriculum Studies (BSCS). It was a course known for its rigor and for...

You've already heard the story by now-- Pearson has been found monitoring students on social media in New Jersey, catching them tweeting...

Chicago Public Schools caved. The district's CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett was holding out for a limited rollout of the PARCC, administerin...

Russ Walsh is a reading specialist who also maintains a mighty fine blog. While Russ is always worth reading, over the last two weeks he has...

It's been two weeks since I ploughed through the PARCC sample test items , and the swelling in my brain has mostly subsided. But there h...

As fans of test-driven accountability (as well as test-generated profits) continue to argue vigorously for the continued repeated use of Big...

The fairy tale surrounding PARCC and the other Big Standardized Tests has been tweaked and rewritten and adapted, but some folks still enjoy...

Since the beginnings of the current wave of test-driven accountability, reformsters have been excited about stack ranking-- the process of s...

Today, I'm trying something new. I've gotten myself onto the PARCC sample item site and am going to look at the ELA sample items fo...

Benchmark is originally a surveying term. Benchmarks are slots cut into the side of stone (read "permanent") structures into which...

Today David Hespe, the acting education commissioner in New Jersey, sent out a letter to Chief School Administrators, Charter School Lead P...

Sarah Blaine blogs over at parentingthecore , and while she is not a very prolific, her posts are often thoughtful and thought-provoking (sh...