New Jersey might be close to avoiding a looming crisis over its controversial high school graduation rules. But it’s not the fix critics who won a legal battle to overturn the rules had said they ...

The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), a federally funded testing consortium aligned with Common Core, is in the spotlight once again. Though it administered the ...

A first-of-its-kind study has found that students who score at the “college-ready” level on the PARCC exam are well-positioned to earn good grades in college. The findings provide early evidence that ...

State test scores took a nosedive as students struggled to pass the first PARCC exams last school year, with some of Illinois’ most elite schools seeing a sharp drop in performance compared with the ...

Last year, frustrated parents spurred a movement by pulling their kids out of the annual standardized tests. That movement has prompted state education officials to release more information with this ...

TRENTON-- New Jersey's Department of Education on Monday released reports on two of the most controversial topics in education: standardized testing and Common Core. The reviews, ordered by Gov. Chris ...

CLIFTON, N.J. (CBSNewYork) -- One New Jersey mother is upset after she received what appeared to be a test score for a controversial student exam that her son didn't take. As CBS2's Christine Sloan ...

PARCC stands for the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers. The partnership part refers to the fact that several states, including Colorado, banded together to develop the ...

In his March 26 blog post, “Three Practical Questions About PARCC & SBAC Testing,” Rick Hess raises legitimate questions about how variation in the testing conditions will impact the validity and ...