Just Say No to OSPI’s Superfluous Science Assessment for Class of 2019 Students

Three years ago, the first year 11th grade students in Washington were scheduled to take Smarter Balanced Assessments, “more than 42,000 11th-graders — roughly half of the state’s junior class…did not show up for their exams.” The students were not required to pass the tests in order to graduate from high school, but taking them would …

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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