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K-12 Center at ETS: Coming Together to Raising Achievement

K-12 Center at ETS: Coming Together to Raising Achievement

 

This report is a concise summaries of five multistate assessment consortia.

 

The Palm Beach Post: School computer time eaten up by testing in Palm Beach County

The Palm Beach Post: School computer time eaten up by testing in Palm Beach County - by Allison Ross

Despite a recent influx in new computers, Palm Beach County schools will still have to displace students (who use the computers everyday for classes) during the upcoming online assessment testing window.

DK Foundation: PARCC Assessments and Broadband Access on a Collision Course

DK Foundation: PARCC Assessments and Broadband Access on a Collision Course by Yilan Shen.

 

Author Yilan Shen raised the question about broadband access in Colorado and if schools will be able to meet the demands of the pending PARCC online assessments.

PARCC: Assessment Administration Guidance

PARCC: Assessment Administration Guidance

PARCC just release their March 2013  assessment administration guidance.  This guidance includes a couple of specific technology readiness items -

School Speed Test Tools and Analysis

In The Broadband Imperative: Recommendations to Address K-12 Education Infrastructure Needs, SETDA recommends that schools will need external Internet connections to their Internet service provider of 100 Mbps per 1,000 students and staff by 2014-15 and of 1 Gbps per 1,000 students and staff by 2017-18.

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