On August 07, 2015, NPR released this piece concerning setting the cut scores for the PARCC tests that students took in the spring.
NPR makes this statement:
…Until last year, it was all but impossible to compare students across state lines. Not anymore.
This is not true. States have been required to participate in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) as part of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB).
What is interesting is that the Fordham Institute’s grading of state standards (and finding in favor of Common Core even though it did not give Common Core a higher rating than all state standards) demonstrates no connection between their ratings of state standards and NAEP scores.
So now, we have PARCC, and according to NPR, we have a number of individuals meeting to “nail down cut scores for those 5 million tests.”
If anyone tells you…
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