About two-thirds of district superintendents say states should stick with their common-core testing consortia, while 16 percent remain on the fence over the issue, according to results from a new ...

Includes updates and/or revisions. Two groups of states that are designing assessments for the new set of common academic standards have expanded their plans to provide instructional materials and ...

One of Shyrock’s major suggestions was that districts need to consider how students’ data is being collected, shared and analyzed. Lightning Grader is an online assessment program provided to ...

Many states will receive results from assessments aligned with the Common Core State Standards for the first time this fall. These assessments of students' progress, developed by the Smarter Balanced ...

Forty-five states and the District of Columbia have adopted the Common Core State Standards, promising full implementation by the 2014-15 school year. While most of the discussion about the Common ...