Passing the new PARCC state tests in language arts and math will be one of three options high school students can use to meet the state requirement for graduation during the three-year transition ...

A pop third-grade math quiz — question No. 4 from a PARCC practice test for grade 3, unit 2 math that anyone can access online: Which three statements can be represented by the expression 24 [divided ...

BOSTON (CBS) - Starting next week, more than half of all elementary and middle school students in Massachusetts will begin taking the new PARCC test. This is a pilot program as officials decide if the ...

Some built-in student accommodations planned for the common-core tests under development by the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers will not be available during spring 2014 ...

As educators and families grapple with interpreting the new PARCC test results that started to be rolled out this week, the stakes for some students could be real and immediate. Only about a third of ...

Gov. Bobby Jindal has issued an executive order that allows parents to exercise their choice to opt out of upcoming PARCC standardized tests. The order also urges the Louisiana Board of Elementary and ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this article mischaracterized how the Council of Chief State School Officers came to possess PARCC test questions. Before it disbanded, the PARCC consortium ...

At the April 12 School Board meeting I was very disappointed to learn that a number of district parents have opted their children out of the PARCC tests being given this month. This is unfortunate for ...

The plan has added Chromebook laptops and other devices in certain classrooms and expanded wireless networks in schools, among other measures.Trenkamp said the district added more technology for ...

Boys trail girls in reaching “proficiency” reading levels, Maryland’s PARCC tests show. According to data released Tuesday by the Maryland State Board of Education, 50.9% of elementary and middle ...