Posted on 10/04/2013 5:50:29 PM PDT by Southern by Grace
ACT Inc. announced today that it is developing a new series of assessments for every grade level, from 3rd through 10th, to measure skills needed in college and careers.
The tests, which would be administered digitally and provide instant feedback to teachers, will be piloted in states this fall and scheduled to be launched in 2014, says Jon Erickson, the president of education for ACT, the Iowa City, Iowa-based nonprofit testing company.
The "next generation" assessment will be pegged to the Common Core State Standards and cover the four areas now on the ACT: English, reading, math, and science.
"It connects all the grades—elementary school through high school—to measure growth and development," says Erickson. "It informs teaching, as students progress, to intervene at early ages."
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"The assessment would look beyond academics to get a complete picture of the whole student," stated Jon Erickson of ACT. "There would be interest inventories for students, as well as assessment of behavioral skills for students and teachers to evaluate.”
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Glenn Beck has been covering common core, concerned the goal is to pigeon hole your child into a job/career track determined by their data while in high school
What is frightening is that many of the 3rd to 6th graders, if not infected with Common Core may outscore most of the high schoolers.
This is total BS. The proprietors of ACT testing are just trying to soak the taxpayers. The public school system is so corrupt that it needs to be abolished!
It’s a rehash of the failed School to Work in the late 90’s. Hillary Clinton and her friend Marc Tucker.
No one wanted it then. No one wants it now, but it never really ever goes away.
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