Computerized Testing Disaster Preview
It's going to be so feakin' awesome when we finally get all the kids taking all those Common Core and PARCC and state-level standardized tests on computers! Because - considering they must all take them at the same time - what could possibly go wrong?
School testing came to a halt statewide early Monday because the CTB/McGraw-Hill testing company servers in New Jersey crashed around 9 a.m., state education officials said.
In the last week of Oklahoma's April testing window, the outage has raised rescheduling concerns among school officials across the state.
"We're working with (McGraw) very closely" to resolve the problems, said Sherry Fair, spokeswoman with the state Department of Education.
School districts were advised to cancel online testing because of the server crash,