Common Core State Standards

It’s Time To End High School Exit Testing in Washington State

It’s time to end exit testing requirements for Washington state high school students. Setting the bar high to ensure high school graduates achieve an adequate level of understanding in English, Math, and Biology is important. The Every Student Succeeds Act requires testing of high school students in these subjects, but requiring students to meet a cut score on …

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How Washington State Adopted Rigorous Common Core Standards…Then Quietly Backpedaled

“Be afraid. Be very afraid,” is what I would have said to Washington State’s Class of 2019 students and their parents a year ago. In July of 2011, the Washington State Superintendent of Public Instruction adopted Common Core State Standards. Since then, assessments required for high school graduation have become more difficult. Five years after …

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