Massachusetts Dumps MCAS for PARCC-stuffed “MCAS 2.0”
On November 12, 2015, the PARCC consortium announced that it will now offer several “testing options,” which amounts to little more than PARCC now becoming a test item vendor by degrees.
Weeks before, on October 19, 2015, Massachusetts Commissioner of Education Mitchell Chester proposed that DESE create a hybrid of the state’s current assessment, the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) and PARCC.
He called it “MCAS 2.0.”
It should come as no surprise that on November 17, 2015, Massachusett’s Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) voted 8-3 fr what amounted to a set-up: either a revised MCAS (i.e., now PARCC-stuffed MCAS 2.0) or full-blown PARCC.
So, the DESE choice was actually Sort of Hidden PARCC or Obvious PARCC.
And in typical, corporate-reform “urgency,” MCAS 2.0 is supposed to be constructed, Massachusetts Dumps MCAS for PARCC-stuffed “MCAS 2.0” | deutsch29:
