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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]11:54 is right. PARCC is the new assessment that goes along with the Common Core. So far 40 states have implemented the Common Core and most will be using PARCC as the standardized assessment to go with it. There's another standardized test that some of those states will be using but they're both along the same lines.[/quote]

But, they are not even finished writing PARCC yet.  They are still "writing" the accommodations policies, for example, not all of which have even been open for public comment yet.

So for, some period of time, we will have new curriculum but the old assessment?

Also, what I meant when I asked about "assessment" earlier was not the 1 standardized annual assessment required by NCLB, but the suite of assessments that normal go along with a curriculum when it is introduced.  When my child was exposed to C2.0 in 1st grade at an early adopting school, the curriculum came without any assessment tools to see whether a child had learned the objectives in the curriculum.  Now that child is in 3rd grade, and I can see that there are a couple of assessments in his graded work, but most of the graded work has been made up by the teacher on the fly and pulled from internet resources.  Once again, C 2.0 has come up with a framework of objectives, but no actual teaching materials nor does there seem to be a systematic assessment packages that tracks a student on a weekly or monthly basis as the skills are being taught.

Parents and kids need to know how they are doing in school as they go thru the year so adjustments can be made.  It's too late to find out at the April administration of PARCC that your child didn't actually master the skills in the past year.  [/quote]

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