The PARCC governing board adopted the grade-and-subject-specific descriptors unanimously. Higher education representatives voted along with K-12 representatives from each state, since PARCC policy ...

The descriptions of the skills and knowledge are hard to argue with, but can also seem vague -- and probably unthreatening. What might be threatening -- and is certainly ambitious -- is this statement ...

PARCC defines the level of its test that connotes college readiness, and describes what performance at that level should look like. Final College-Readiness Definition Guides Test Consortium ...

Then there’s higher education. College and university job descriptions focus on easy-to-measure metrics like research and under-index hard-to-measure metrics like producing student outcomes.