Peter Greene reports that the dream of one big national assessment is finished. States are dropping out of PARCC and SBA. Some are dropping out while quietly buying a new test that looks like PARCC. None is dropping in. Fifty states will not take the same test. Period.

Not new news, but that was the original plan, the equivalent of a form A (PARCC) and a form B (SBAC) with cut-scores set for comparability of the two tests. That promise was made to USDE when the consortiums applied for supplementary funds for “curriculum development” in order to construct the tests. An illegal move by USDE granted the funds. When will the curriculum materials be released so taxpayers can learn what $30 million invested in that part of the process can buy, and offer some informed opinions about the merit of those materials? Likely when pigs fly.
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