Experts Anticipate Common Core Testing Problems

Amid technical “hiccups,” officials are “scrambling to avoid its own version of a full-scale HealthCare.gov meltdown when millions of students pilot new digital Common Core tests this spring,” Politico (12/28, Emma) reports. Although “the tests have been designed to go easy on schools’ Internet infrastructure,” experts anticipate significant problems due to the “massive scale” of the testing effort.

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