“It will be challenging but also exciting, as [Common Core and PARCC have] implications for improving our curriculum, our assessments, and how we design and deliver them.”

“I support PARCC because it is necessary for our students to be college and career ready. We need better ways to assess their preparedness for education and careers, and that assessment needs to be aligned with the common core. The results of these assessments can help us to better revise instruction to meet our students' needs.”

Two-thirds of voters believe it is better for all states to have the same tests at each grade level in math and English so test scores can be compared across states rather than all states having “their own tests that reflect their own priorities”.

44% of students change schools at least once between kindergarten and the end of third grade.

One-third of freshmen must take and pay for remedial courses in math and/or English at two- and four-year colleges before they can even begin their chosen course of study.