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Thursday, November 15, 2012

Missouri Education Watchdog: The End of Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium?

Missouri Education Watchdog: The End of Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium?:


The End of Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium?

Color me shocked.  A consortia pushing unproven, untested, unfunded, unconstitutional standards doomed to fail?



The elite speak.  From The Huffington Post and "50 to 75 education insiders" interviewed by Education Whiteboard:

About 44 percent of respondents believe there is a high likelihood of states exiting the consortia (SBAC) and designing their own custom Common Core-aligned tests with the help of third-party vendors, asUtah did in early August. A majority are of the opinion that SBAC’s membership may drop by as much as half by 2014, though they are less pessimistic about PARCC.