Common Core not up to code in Nevada
By Ian Whitaker, Las Vegas Sun
The debut of computerized Common Core tests in Nevada has been a disaster.
State and school district officials watched helplessly for more than a week as problems with the testing company’s servers prevented thousands of students from logging on to take the Smarter Balanced Assessment. In Clark County, efforts to rearrange busy school schedules to take the federally mandated test were in vain as nonstop problems forced the district to halt testing indefinitely.
In California, a million students took the same test without a hitch.
So what went wrong here?
Most education officials in Nevada blame Measured Progress, the state-contracted testing company tasked with hosting the test on its servers and collecting the results for analysis.
