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 Where have YOU been? It's all over the NY news. NY and Kentucky took the early PARCC tests. Why do you think they are ready to run the head of education out of the state?

http://www.parcconline.org/parcc-statement-release-new-york-state-assessment-results

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/08/nyregion/under-new-standards-students-see-sharp-decline-in-test-scores.html

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No, Kentucky did not take the early PARCC tests. Kentucky designed their own Common Core tests.

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/state_edwatch/2013/09/common-core_tests_in_kentucky_year_two_whats_the_trend.html[/quote]

No, Pearson wrote the tests for New York and Kentucky: They are considered "pilots"
(Do you really thing that the states took the time and money to write the tests? They are part of the 'consortium' involved with the two big testing companies."

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Are you saying that Pearson wrote the tests for Kentucky, and Pearson is one of the contractors writing the tests for PARCC, therefore the Kentucky tests are the PARCC tests?

Kentucky has been using tests designed for the Common Core. But they are not the PARCC tests.[/quote]

Of course I'm saying that, because it's true. The Pearson tests in NY, Kentucky and now North Carolina are created by Pearson, aligned with Common Core. These kids have been the guinea pigs for this Common Core nonsense. The impossible tests everyone in those states are failing will be rolled out to everyone next spring. Do you think the PARCC tests, written by exactly the same people using exactly the same standards, are going to be words different?

If it was a Common Core test answer, it would be PARCC = Pearson.

What is[b] PARCC?[/b]

A 19-state consortium working with the [b]Pearson education company [/b]to develop new computer-based exams in English and math. Massachusetts’ Education Commissioner Mitchell D. Chester is on the governing board of PARCC, one of two state-led groups working on developing a “next generation” standardized test. The other is the 25-state Smarter Balanced Assessment consortium. [/quote]

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