PARCC has made its sample test questions available for computer-based practice. Sample items for the upcoming assessments of Common Core State Standards have been released previously for testing on ...

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While teachers are getting to know and become more comfortable with the Common Core State Standards, many still feel the presence of a dark, amorphous cloud hanging over them: the assessments. At the ...

Students, parents, and teachers who are anxious or merely curious about the coming online assessments matched to the Common Core State Standards will now have the opportunity to go through a test run ...

Our celebrity panel's results for the Common Core sample quiz question No. 8. Last night, the Louisiana House Education Committee rejected two bills that would have halted Common Core and the test ...

I read with interest the Common Core sample test questions ("Take a sneak peek at the new Common Core exams that are coming to Ohio," April 20). I note that the Grade 11 arts/literacy questions are ...

Our celebrity panel's results for the Common Core sample quiz question No. 4. "I think there is a potential problem with understanding Part B's directions," writes commenter Mike Whitener in the ...

Forty-two states and the District of Columbia are now using the same math and English standards, but the tests they use to determine how well students have mastered them still vary significantly. One ...