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Common Core groups to come courting
- 02-22-2011
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
At State Board of Education President Mike Kirst’s instigation, California will consider taking a more active role in one or both of the two consortia of states that are designing the assessments for the Common Core standards. The decision on which group to join will make a strategic difference on how California’s districts and teachers prepare for new tests, curricula, teacher training, and textbooks that will all be part of switching to new Common Core standards in math and English language arts by 2015 – just four years away. Both federally funded organizations – the Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and the SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium – will make presentations at the State Board meeting on March 9 and to other education groups in Sacramento the day before. The State Board could choose to become a member of both consortia (some states already are) or a governing member of either. (more...)
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