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Florida’s move toward Common Core standards in schools is sure to be discussed during the upcoming legislative session.Lawmakers will also consider…
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Yesterday Gov. Rick Scott issued an executive order stating his desire that Florida ends its role handling the money for a consortium of states developing a new test tied to
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Florida is backing out of its role as a leader on the PARCC (Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers) assessment. The PARCC consortium is made up of
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Florida appears ready to exit a multistate effort to develop new tests to measure student learning, abandoning the initiative amid conservative activists'…
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Gov. Rick Scott and lawmakers are concerned about the cost of replacing the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. Florida is one of 45 states moving to new math, English and literacy
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What’s the status of Florida’s relationship with the multi-state test being designed to test new Common Core State Standards? It’s complicated. The Partnership for Assessment of College and Careers was
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An "A" was always the gold standard. Every student knows that the better the grade, the greater the reward, whether the reward is a gold star, a trophy or…
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In the next few weeks, the man in charge of kindergarten through twelfth grade education in Florida has to answer a multiple choice question: Which standardized test should the state
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Third grade students will spend at least eight hours a year taking Florida’s next standardized test, with high school juniors will spend nearly 10 hours to complete the new online