Five Core Propositions National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) What Teachers Should Know and Be Able to Do: The Five Core Propositions of the National Board NBPTS was created in 1987 after the Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy’s Task Force on Teaching as a Profession released A Nation Prepared: Teachers for the 21st Century. Shortly after its release, NBPTS issued its first policy statement: What Teachers Should Know and Be Able to Do (PDF - 104kb).This policy set forth our vision for accomplished teaching. The Five Co in Assessment > Standardswith corenbptspropositionsstandards
PARCC Consortium Awarded Race to the Top Assessment Funds | Achieve.org WASHINGTON – September 2, 2010 – The U.S. Department of Education today awarded "Race to the Top" assessment funds to the Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC or Partnership) for the development of a K-12 assessment system aligned to the Common Core State Standards in English language arts and mathematics, which will help states dramatically increase the number of students who graduate high school ready for college and careers. in Assessment > Standardswith commoncoremewsparccstandards