Nov 30, 2015
We encouraged parents to request the questions and answers on the Smarter Balanced Assessment (SBA) their children took last spring. While many refused to take the SBA, those who took it have the right to look at every question and answer their child was given per New...
Nov 16, 2015
Now that the abysmal Smarter Balanced scores have come out, the spinning has just begun. The Common Core soldiers in the state are spinning these results to avoid some of the tough questions that come from this testing scheme. In the past, New Hampshire under...
Sep 10, 2015
We received a copy of this letter from a parent to her school administrators. She gave us permission to post this however we felt it was best to remove the names of the parents and their child. The purpose of posting this is to give parents guidance on how to address...
Aug 30, 2015
The Smarter Balanced Assessment set students up for failure. This explains why…. EXCERPT: In September 2014, the group that developed the SBAC test announced for the first time that the SBAC test would fail 67% of the students who took the test. Here is a quote...
Jun 18, 2015
LD 1276 Maine legislation to rid the state of the Smarter Balanced Assessment