Expect Student Test Scores to “Nosedive” With Common Core-PARCC Tests
From NPR reporter Gabriel Spitzer in Seattle.
Seattle families should expect steep drops in student test scores as public schools adopt new national learning standards, according to a report to be presented Wednesday evening to the Seattle School Board.
Starting next year, students in Washington, 44 other states, and the District of Columbia will be held to new, tougher standards known as Common Core. That could cause some sticker shock once test scores start rolling in a year later.
A new analysis from the publisher Scholastic says Seattle schools should prepare for a 10- to 33 percent drop in student proficiency, and that as many as half of tested students could come in below standards. The estimates come from comparing scores from the current state tests with theNational Assessment of Educational Progress, which is thought to employ a similar level of rigor to
From NPR reporter Gabriel Spitzer in Seattle.
Seattle families should expect steep drops in student test scores as public schools adopt new national learning standards, according to a report to be presented Wednesday evening to the Seattle School Board.
Starting next year, students in Washington, 44 other states, and the District of Columbia will be held to new, tougher standards known as Common Core. That could cause some sticker shock once test scores start rolling in a year later.
A new analysis from the publisher Scholastic says Seattle schools should prepare for a 10- to 33 percent drop in student proficiency, and that as many as half of tested students could come in below standards. The estimates come from comparing scores from the current state tests with theNational Assessment of Educational Progress, which is thought to employ a similar level of rigor to
Indiana Continues It’s Slide Away From Common Core, PARCC
No one would have predicted that even with Tony Bennett’s departure, a red state like Indiana would shift so decidedly away his reforms. But not every republican legislators was on board. In April, the Indiana legislaturevoted to re-write it’s school grade formula and to “pause” implementation of Common Core. Now they’ve backed away from the PARCC testing consortium. Writes StateImpact Indiana reporter Elle Moxley:
We dropped by the PARCC governing board meeting in Washington, D.C. — you know, just happened to be in the neighborhood — and noticed an absence: Indiana.
State education officials didn’t participate in talks Wednesday to set performance expectations on new standardized tests aligned to a set of nationally-crafted academic standards known as theCommon Core.
As a governing state in the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers,