More About the Washington DC PARCC Assessment (Common Core) Tests
About the PARCC
The Partnership for
Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) is a group of states
working together to develop a set of assessments that measure whether students
are on track to be successful in college and their careers. These high quality,
computer-based K–12 assessments in Mathematics and English Language
Arts/Literacy give teachers, schools, students, and parents better information
whether students are on track in their learning and for success after high
school, and tools to help teachers customize learning to meet student needs.
The PARCC tests are high quality, computer-based K–12 assessments in Mathematics
and English Language Arts/Literacy). They are carefully crafted to give
teachers, schools, students, and parents better and more useful information on
how we’re preparing our kids for their futures. The PARCC assessments will be
ready for states to administer during the 2014-15 school year.
Participating states include:
- Arkansas
- Colorado
- Washington, District of
Columbia
- Illinois
- Louisiana
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Mississippi
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- Ohio
- Rhode Island
The District of
Columbia Commitment to Higher Standards
The
District of Columbia State Board of Education adopted the Common Core State
Standards in mathematics and English language arts/literacy in July 2010. In
August 2010, the District became one of 12 states to win the Race to the Top
competition. The District of Columbia joined the Partnership for Assessment of
Readiness for College and Careers as a Governing State in the spring of 2010 and
actively helped shape PARCC’s proposal for a common, next-generation assessment
system.
Postsecondary
Commitment to College and Career Readiness
The
PARCC assessment measures real world skills that colleges value, like critical
thinking and problem solving. That’s why all of the District of Columbia’s
public two- and four-year colleges and universities have committed to
participate in PARCC. They helped develop the assessments to ensure that it
measures college readiness.
The
District of Columbia’s college and universities will use those assessments as
one of the indicators of a student’s readiness for entry-level, credit-bearing
college courses – and because these institutions educate every freshman entering
public colleges and universities in the District of Columbia, we’re ensuring
that our students succeed.
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