Advance Illinois Statement: Shift from PARCC in High Schools is a Short-Term Solution
July
Advance Illinois’ goal is to ensure that high school assessments help demonstrate whether students are on track for college and career. While the SAT has taken steps to align with the Common Core, we do not yet know precisely how or if the SAT will meet the longer-term needs of a high school assessment: to show student academic growth, inform instruction and provide for college placement. We will continue to focus on these issues as we work with the state to implement provisions of the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) in 2017.