Friday Doodle: A Common Core Testing Map
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Kyle likes to freehand doodle maps of the continental U.S. Elle likes to track states' participation in Common Core State Standards testing consortia. (You decide who's the bigger geek.) Generally, green states participate in the Smarter Balanced consortium, blue states participate in PARCC and purple states participate in neither — but this map doesn't tell the whole story.
Can’t a guy just go to lunch these days without his reporting colleague scribbling all over the map of the United States he just freehand-doodled on a white board? You know, seriously?
Seriously, these aren’t just scribbles. Elle overlaid — quite literally — a rough sketch of which states participate in the two principal groups developing standardized tests to pair with nationally-crafted Common Core academic standards.
I say “rough sketch” because, let’s be honest, Arizona doesn’t look like that. But it’s also a rough sketch because you need far more than three colors of white board marker to tell the