States will begin testing students under the Common Core State Standards in 2014. PARCC and SABC are the testing consortiums developing online or computerized tests. Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium or SBAC. At $31/student, SABC provides testing services to thirty-one member states (links are to state departments of education): California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, [...]
September 17, 2012
Common Core vs State Standards
Guest post by SD in Arkansas If you stay in the education business long enough, you start to see trends in the “education reforms.” One such trend is the movement from “specific” standards to broader standards and then back again. Every decade or so, we seem to see the pendulum swing back the other way. [...]
