Missouri Education Watchdog: You Can Opt Your Child Out of Pilot Common Core Testing or Practice Creative Protest

Missouri Education Watchdog: You Can Opt Your Child Out of Pilot Common Core Testing or Practice Creative Protest:

You Can Opt Your Child Out of Pilot Common Core Testing or Practice Creative Protest

by stlgretchen

This memo from DESE on a Common Core assessment pilot for your children makes it sound as if there was a huge demand for more pilot testing in the districts:

Due to the overwhelming demand for access to the Volunteer Pilotassessment from principals, teachers, parents, and the public in Missouri and acrossthe Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, the Smarter Balanced AssessmentConsortium has decided to release a more complete and more broadly available“practice test” in lieu of the Volunteer Pilot assessment.

...the Practice Test will be available beginning Wednesday, May 29. We understand thatfor many schools, this later start date may be too close to—or, in some cases, after—the