Results for some of
the states that participated in Common Core-aligned testing for the
first time this spring are out, with overall scores higher than expected
though still below what many parents may be accustomed to seeing.
Full
or preliminary scores have been released for Connecticut, Idaho,
Missouri, Oregon, Vermont, Washington and West Virginia. They all
participated in the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, one of two
groups of states awarded $330 million by the U.S. Department of
Education in 2010 to develop exams to test students on the Common Core
state standards in math and English language arts.
Scores
in four other states that developed their own exams tied to the
standards have been released. The second testing group, the Partnership
for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, is still setting
benchmarks for each performance level and has not released any results.
Even
when all the results are available, it will not be possible to compare
student performance across a majority of states, one of Common Core's
fundamental goals.
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