By Daniela Bravo & America Ramirez
This year, students will be given the PARCC test which will be administered in April. The PARCC stands for The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College. According to parcconline.org, PARCC is a group of 12 states and the District of Columbia (Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island) that work together to develop a set of assessments that measure whether students are on track to be successful in college and their careers. Hubbard freshmen will be the only set of students who will be taking this test, a changed from the juniors who were originally slated to take the test. We are still unsure if it will be an online or written test. Many teachers are preparing their students by handing out practice packets that resemble this test. Our test coordinator, Mrs. Phillips, will be attending training classes and provide feedback for the freshmen teachers. Since the test will be taken in April, the ACT dates are affected and are now moved to March 3rd, 2015. This is unfortunate because the juniors will have one less month to prepare for the ACT, a change that proved to be unnecessary because juniors no longer have to take the PARCC. It is not clear if other underclassmen will take this test next year, but all grade levels will eventually take the PARCC.
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