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SMARTER Balanced and PARCC award contract to Pearson
2/1/12
From the Office of the State of Washington Superintendent of Public Instruction
OLYMPIA, Wash. – Jan. 31, 2012 – The SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium and the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) today announced they have awarded a contract to Pearson to develop a new Technology Readiness Tool to support states as they transition to next-generation assessments. This new open source tool, with the assistance of the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA), will support state education agencies as they work with local education agencies to evaluate and determine needed technology and infrastructure upgrades for the new online assessments to be launched by the two consortia in the 2014-15 school year. Read More:
http://www.k12.wa.us/SMARTER/PressReleases/TechReadinessTool.aspx
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