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
ESL Standards for Pre-K-12 Students National standards for ESL currently being revised to reflect more content. They will be based on the new WIDA English Language Proficiency Standards used in Illinois and other states in the consortium The challenge of contemporary education is to prepare all students for life in this new world, including those learners who enter schools with a language other than English. The purpose of Promising Futures is to identify the ESL standards and their role in meeting this challenge. eslprek-12standardsstudents in Assessment > Standardswith eslpre-k-12standardsstudents