The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers is a group of states committed to building a next-generation assessment system.

PARCC states collectively educate about 24 million public K-12 students in the United States. PARCC states include: Arizona [3], Arkansas [4], Colorado [5], District of Columbia [6], Florida [7], Georgia [8], Illinois [9], Indiana [10], Kentucky [11], Louisiana [12], Maryland [13], Massachusetts [14], Mississippi [15], New Jersey [16], New Mexico [17], New York [18], North Dakota [19], Ohio [20], Oklahoma [21], Pennsylvania [22], Rhode Island [23], and Tennessee [24].

What brought all of these states together is a shared commitment to develop an assessment system aligned to the Common Core State Standards that is anchored in college and career readiness; provides comparability across states; has the ability to assess and measure higher-order skills such as critical thinking, communications, and problem solving; and provides truly useful information for educators, parents, and students alike.

While each state has their own priorities and challenges, PARCC provides the opportunity for participating states to come together and collectively move the field forward and break new ground in assessment design.