Mitchell Chester Wants to Create a PARCC-MCAS Hybrid | deutsch29

Mitchell Chester Wants to Create a PARCC-MCAS Hybrid | deutsch29:

Mitchell Chester Wants to Create a PARCC-MCAS Hybrid

From Massachusetts, where the commissioner of education, Mitchell Chester, chairs the PARCC consortium and the state is supposed to choose between the state test, MCAS, and PARCC on November 17, 2015:

Chester suggests… an MCAS-PARCC hybrid???

Birthed from the self-serving womb of political motivation. Note the late-to-the-party talk of “control of our standards and assessments”:

STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE

ED COMMISSIONER FLOATS “DOOR NUMBER THREE” AS COMPROMISE ON STANDARIZED TESTING

By Katie Lannan
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE
MALDEN, OCT. 19. 2015…..

As the state prepares to decide whether to adopt a new standardized test known as PARCC or stick with the existing MCAS exams, Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education Mitchell Chester on Monday put forward a third option — a hybrid of the two tests.

“I am considering this new model, this door number three, that takes advantage of our access to PARCC development…but uses that development for the construction of a MCAS 2.0, and gives us the running room to ensure 

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