[blindkid] Feedback from PARCC and Smarter Balanced tests needed!!

[Carlton Anne Cook Walker]

>From the National Center for the Blind:


PARCC and Smarter Balanced are Common-core aligned, high-stakes tests
administered to students around the country. Unfortunately, these tests are
not always accessible to students with blindness/visual impairment.

Though the NFB has advocated extensively, our work is far from finished.
We need to continue gathering information regarding PARCC and Smarter
Balanced practice and operational tests.

Your feedback in this area is critical!

As parents, students, and teachers, you can provide NFB with valuable data
reflective of the assessments’ use within your local school districts.  In
particular, when students took the assessments for the first time this
spring, we want to know if, when, and where accessibility and accommodation
failures occurred so that we can help ensure any problems are fixed.

Please complete the following survey and encourage other parents, students,
and teachers to do the same:  Common Core Assessment Survey
<http://nfb.org/CommonCoreAssessmentSurvey>.

-- 
Carlton Anne Cook Walker
Attorney at Law
Teacher of Students with Blindness/Visual Impairment
105 Creamery Road
Boiling Springs, PA   17007
Voice: 717-658-9894
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