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 ...

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 ...

ALEXANDRIA TWP. — A class of eighth-graders at Alexandria Middle School was graded on a practice PARCC test this spring, and Superintendent Matthew Jennings says that was appropriate. The assessment, ...

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 ...

KUSA - Students and parents across Colorado are protesting new standardized testing going on right now. The PARCC test is supposed to measure how effective a teacher is at preparing a student for ...

Massachusetts students who took state exams online in 2015 scored significantly worse than their peers who took the same exams on paper, according to a new study by the American Institutes for ...

A few students, he said, thought the new tests were “a lot more worthwhile” and “more of an intellectual challenge.”Some students experienced technical issues while taking the test, he said.“I have ...