The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), a federally funded testing consortium aligned with Common Core, is in the spotlight once again. Though it administered the ...

PARCC is doing some deep soul-searching, with its future at stake. It’s figuring out how it should reorganize to survive the coming years, and who should run it. The most recent phase of that process ...

In his March 26 blog post, “Three Practical Questions About PARCC & SBAC Testing,” Rick Hess raises legitimate questions about how variation in the testing conditions will impact the validity and ...

A first-of-its-kind study has found that students who score at the “college-ready” level on the PARCC exam are well-positioned to earn good grades in college. The findings provide early evidence that ...

State test scores took a nosedive as students struggled to pass the first PARCC exams last school year, with some of Illinois’ most elite schools seeing a sharp drop in performance compared with the ...

BAYONNE-- As George Christiana's daughter was taking her scheduled PARCC algebra I exam on Tuesday afternoon, she thought the questions seemed too easy, he said. There was a good reason why: The test ...

A deeper examination of the results from the new state standardized test reveal Glencoe School District 35 students adjusting better to English language arts testing as opposed to math, officials said ...

The political fight over the PARCC exam has an important new stakeholder: The class of 2019. Some 170,000 high school students, including juniors, thought they had fulfilled the requirements to ...

While New Jersey’s so-called “achievement gap” between rich and poor and white and minorities has always been wide, the chasm appears even wider based on the first year of the new PARCC testing. The ...

CLIFTON, N.J. (CBSNewYork) -- One New Jersey mother is upset after she received what appeared to be a test score for a controversial student exam that her son didn't take. As CBS2's Christine Sloan ...