The Deseret News – Eric Schulzke
“One of the main common core testing groups has released actual test question samples from its 2015 tests for all grades and subjects, giving parents and the public a window into an ongoing controversy over how to hold teachers and schools accountable for student learning. Common Core tests sparked boycotts and furor last spring. From Florida to New York to Colorado, teachers and parents argued that students and teachers were both being judged unfairly by the demanding new standards. But last spring, more than 200,000 New Yorkers, 20 percent of the total, opted out of common core tests. New York was not using the PARCC test, using instead a different test produced by education publisher Pearson.”(more)