Career Readiness Description A Stumbling Block in Common Core
We reported on the SBAC meeting here in St. Louis where one of the things the State Education Chiefs did was quietly endorse the Career Readiness Partner Council goals. The next day, the other consortia PARCC, also discussed the CRPC performance level descriptions. They were less cohesive in their viewpoints.
Edweek, with guest blogger Liana Heitin, reported on their meeting.
At what an attendee described as one of the milder governing board meetings this year, PARCC's K-12 and higher education leaders continued their work to define career readiness and agree on performance-level descriptors for the impending Common Core State Standards assessments.
The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers governing board has been at this