From EdSurge ..... This spring, tests developed by the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium will be administered to well over 10 million students in 17 states to determine their proficiency on the Common Core Standards for Mathematics. If the results are disappointing, who should shoulder the blame—the students, their teachers, the administrators, the standards? Based on my analysis of the available test items, the real culprit will be the tests themselves. In 2010, I, like many educators, was hopeful that $330 million of tax dollars from the U.S. Education Department and the pooled resources of state governments would produce a new generation of Common Core mathematics and language … [Read more...]