Welcome to the PARCC Website!

We are very excited to share PARCC's new website! Whether you are an educator, policymaker, parent, student or simply an engaged member of the public, this website offers useful information on the Common Core State Standards and PARCC assessments.

The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) represents an important step forward. For the first time ever, 25 states have come together to develop a next-generation, common assessment system that will help ensure all students graduate from high school ready for college and careers.

The website has five main sections:

• About PARCC is where you can find information on PARCC’s goals, governance structure, key stakeholders, timeline, and challenges.
   
• The PARCC Assessment is where you can find learn about PARCC’s major design and development work. It currently includes an overview of PARCC’s design elements and committees, and will later include the assessment blueprints and related materials, archived and new RFPs as they are released.
   
• Implementation highlights on the major issues states, districts and/or schools need to address for a successful implementation of the Common Core State Standards and PARCC assessments, mainly from a policy and system-level perspective.
   
• In the Classroom is dedicated to the classroom teacher and focuses on the instructional resources being developed through PARCC, as well as other instructional resources around the Common Core State Standards created by other organizations.
   
• Each of the 25 PARCC States has a page where you can find information on the K-12 and postsecondary leaders managing the PARCC work in your state, as well as information on your state’s implementation of the on Common Core.

The website will also include a newsletter that will offer updates on PARCC-wide activities, as well as updates on developments within participating states. You can sign up here!

We hope you find www.PARCConline.org full of useful information and easy to navigate. If you have any questions or comments or are interested in contributing to the PARCC website, please feel free to contact us.

-- PARCC staff