Test Company Alleges Pearson Common Core Contract Award Biased, Illegal: The decision to award Pearson, the world’s largest education company, a contract of “unprecedented scale” for a Common Core test project has been challenged by a competitor who contends the award was made through a process that was biased in favor of Pearson.
As reported by Sean Cavanagh at Education Week, the American Institutes for Research (AIR), a Washington-based assessment organization, has filed a legal action in New Mexico state court that argues the procedure used by the PARCC Common Core testing consortium was illegal and biased in such a way that only one company – Pearson – could benefit from it.
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