Council of Chief State School Officers
For Support For The SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium's Operations
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Amount$216,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/12/2012
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Term24.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
Representing twenty-seven member states, the SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium is one of two federally-funded consortia formed to develop a common K-12 student assessment system. The consortium will coordinate with the higher education community to foster consensus on reasonable, rigorous student performance standards. Its success is a key component of the Education Program’s Deeper Learning agenda, assuring that the K-12 common assessment system will involve rigorous testing and innovation, align with the postsecondary sector, and be widely adopted by states. This grant would support the consortium’s management and operations.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.ccsso.org
Address
One Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC, 20001-1431, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for support of the Learning Registry
The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) is a membership association that serves the heads of state departments of elementary and secondary education. CCSSO would help provide support for Learning Registry - known as "the card catalog for digital resources" - focusing on working on the governance, maintenance, and future upgrades of Learning Registry with guidance and technical support from its members, and other entities such as its partners, the U.S. Department of Education, and other people and groups interested in Open Education Resources (OER). This work is expected to advance the OER program's strategic goal of supporting a robust technical and institutional infrastructure for the broader OER stakeholder community.
