II.B: Race to the Top Assessment

Provide valid and instructionally useful assessments that provide accurate information about what students know and can do.

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The Race to the Top Assessment Program is a $350 million grant competition designed to fill an urgent need in the nation’s educational system. It seeks to provide valid and instructionally useful assessments that provide accurate information about what students know and can do. These assessments will be anchored in standards designed to enable every student to gain the knowledge and skills needed to succeed in college or the workplace by the time he or she graduates from high school. These grants will support the work of consortia of States that develop and implement common, high-quality assessments aligned with common college- and career-ready K-12 standards. The use of common assessments based on common standards will promote a culture of higher expectations as well as collaboration on best practices. States will use these assessment systems to expand instructional practice and support continuous improvement that meaningfully improves school and educator effectiveness and enhances program impact.

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