Posted on 04/20/2015 8:49:34 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Nevada schools will have to document at least two attempts if they can’t or won’t finish the troubled Common Core testing, as two other states seemed to bounce back from technical problems that halted the federally mandated assessment process.
Last week, testing was stopped in Nevada, Montana and North Dakota after a widespread system crash caused by capacity issues with New Hampshire-based Measured Progress.
The company is contracted to administer the tests linked to hotly disputed, federally backed education standards.
All three states have since announced plans for school districts that say they can’t or won’t finish the test. …
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I guess it’s easier to write software that doesn’t crash when you don’t have to add layers and layers and layers of spyware and data collection...
Teachin’ the kids how not to program.
I think they used Common Core math to determine how much server capacity they needed.
Next they’ll have it coredump.
The first common core dump.
Brought to you by the folks that brought you the obamacare website and the IRS obamacare calculation failures and the same folks who now own the Internet. Great!
Lemme guess. They outsourced the software development to an Indian firm famed for slapdash code that is untested.
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