NEW MEXICO ABANDONS “PARCC.” GOOD !

New Setback for PARCC as Another State Abandons Test.

PARCC, officially known as the

Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers,

is one of two assessments created to enable states to track and compare students’ progress in mastering the Common Core State Standards.…

New Mexico has joined a long list of states that have abandoned the PARCC test, setting off yet another round of speculation that the exam will go the way of the dinosaur.

But PARCC’s overseers say they’ve got a plan to keep questions from the test—which was created with $180 million in federal money—in circulation.

PARCC, officially known as the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, is one of two assessments created to enable states to track and compare students’ progress in mastering the Common Core State Standards….

Editor: It matters not what the plan is to save PARCC. It should be allowed to die a quick, total death. As noted, PARCC is a vestige of Common Core which, after 10 years of experimenting with your children, has proven to be a disaster and is all but on its death bed also.

A great educational program that is not on its way out is the Alpha-Phonics Phonics Reading Instruction Program that has been successfully used for over 33 years.