Sentences with phrase «out of the state assessment consortia»

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And, in fact, a few states, such as Georgia and Oklahoma, have pulled out of the consortia, indicating their desire to seek less - costly alternatives, such as a proposed assessment package being developed by ACT.

They extended already long sales cycles for state and district data and assessment platforms by at least two years while buyers tried to figure out the implications of CCSS and the assessment consortia on the architecture and functionality of their statewide IIS platforms.

Indeed, critics of Common Core were quick to point out that the compromise agreements negotiated in Louisiana and Massachusetts did not stop the implementation of Common Core (both states will continue to use some elements of the consortia - designed assessments).

Indiana recently became the first of the 45 states that originally signed on to the Common Core to officially drop the standards (although the new standards they are set to adopt look very similar) and several states are considering pulling out of the two consortia developing Common Core - aligned assessments.

Oklahoma isn't pulling out of the Common Core assessment consortium PARCC, but state education officials last week announced plans to design their own test.

Indiana isn't the only state that's pulled out of the two assessment consortia in recent months.

The legislation state lawmakers passed barring further implementation of the new academic standards stops short of pulling Indiana out of the consortium developing new assessments.

Indiana pulled out of PARCC, which is a consortium of 26 states that is developing assessments around the Common Core, just last week.

To date, 10 states have pulled out of their original assessment consortia (some were members of both): Utah, Oklahoma, Georgia, Alabama, Indiana, Kansas, Pennsylvania, Alaska, Florida and Kentucky.

With the development of the Next Generation Science Standards and the roll out of the two consortia's CCSS assessments, coming reforms in education will again highlight the role of non-legislative state actors and the need to apply methods like ours for understanding states» efforts towards school improvement.

The costs of implementing the standards, or costs associated with the two consortia of states developing assessments tied to Common Core, have caused a number of states to drop out.

This prediction will puzzle, upset, and maybe infuriate a great many readers — and, of course, it could turn out to be wrong — but enough clues, tips, tidbits, and intuitions have converged in recent weeks that I feel obligated to make it: I expect that PARCC and Smarter Balanced (the two federally subsidized consortia of states that are developing new assessments meant to be aligned with Common Core standards) will fade away, eclipsed and supplanted by long - established yet fleet - footed testing firms that already possess the infrastructure, relationships, and durability that give them huge advantages in the competition for state and district business.