The Christian Science Monitor – Meredith Hamilton
“On Tuesday night Ohio governor John Kasich signed the state’s two-year budget bill, which included a section prohibiting spending on tests developed by the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), a program which has provoked many complaints from educators. As The Washington Post reported, PARCC is one of two federally funded consortia attempting to produce exams that will test American students on Common Core education benchmarks. These rigorous standardized tests were developed by PARCC with the intention of measuring “whether students are on track to be successful in college and their careers,” according to the PARCC website.”(more)