Common Core means three tests in three years for Michigan kids

As political battles rage over the Common Core, teachers like Jennifer Bahns at the University Prep Academy middle school in Detroit are trying to prepare their students for the first major Common Core exams this spring.

DETROIT – Partisan bickering over the Common Core has pushed Michigan legislators in recent years to freeze – then unfreeze – spending on the new standards. They’ve banished the new exam that education officials had been planning to introduce this year and forced the creation of a second new test for 2015 as well as … Continue reading Common Core means three tests in three years for Michigan kids

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