Funding Concerns May Be Forcing a Scaled Down Version of the Common Core Assessment
We reported that the State Chief Education Officers were concerned about continued funding for Common Core Assessments at their recent meeting in St. Louis. We just learned from Ed Week, in a portion of the conference not open to the public, that the consortia was discussing the possibility of having two versions of the Common Core Tests: the planned long version and now a short (and less expensive) version.
The pivot came in response to some states’ resistance to spending more time and money on