Sentences with phrase «consortium on college readiness»
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• State and federal programs like CCSS, RTTT, and the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers and Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortia (groups of states who had adopted CCSS and agreed to work together on developing aligned, shared assessments) slowed down the market for content, assessments, and platforms in some ways.
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Notable recently were the Gates Foundation's call for a two - year moratorium on tying results from assessments aligned to the Common Core to consequences for teachers or students; Florida's legislation to eliminate consequences for schools that receive low grades on the state's pioneering A-F school grading system; the teetering of the multi-state Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) assessment consortium (down from 24 to 15 members, and with its contract with Pearson to deliver the assessments in limbo because of a lawsuit that alleges bid - rigging); and the groundswell of opposition from parents, teachers, and political groups to the content of the Common Core.
In a new article in Education Next, we examine why states have abandoned the assessments (designed by the federally funded Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortia (SBAC) and Partnership for Assessments of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC)-RRB- even as they continue to embrace the standards on which the assessments are based.
On next - generation assessments: PARCC [the Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Career, the assessment consortia to which Louisiana belongs] is going to affect the number of students completing tests successfully.
Finally, re your comment on MA's SSPI considering the consortium assessments as de facto college readiness metrics, I think the grade 11 tests that are being developed will receive a lot of scrutiny once folks get to see what they are.
The consortia's plans state that the results from the assessments will indicate whether students are on track for college and career readiness.