{"id":1886,"date":"2016-05-16T00:42:07","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T04:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/?p=1886"},"modified":"2016-05-16T02:57:55","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T06:57:55","slug":"most-island-high-school-students-took-last-years-parcc-exam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2016\/05\/most-island-high-school-students-took-last-years-parcc-exam\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Island High School Students Took Last Year’s PARCC Exam"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bucking a trend seen in numerous school districts across the state, three of the four high schools that educate island teens\u00a0had a majority of students take last year standardized PARCC test.<\/p>\n

PARCC \u2013 short for\u00a0Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers \u2013 was controversial during the 2014-15 school year, the first time the tests were administered. New Jersey, in particular, became infamous for a trend of \u201copt-outs.\u201d While Brick Township High School had a majority of students skip the exams, Point Pleasant Beach, Toms River High School East and Central Regional High School all had a strong majority of students participate. The tests were administered to freshmen, sophomores and juniors, the results of which were released in performance reports issued by the state last Friday.<\/p>\n

At Point Pleasant Beach High School, 93.8 percent of students took the Language Arts section of the test and 89.9 percent took the math section; at Toms River East, 77.4 percent took Language Arts and 77.5 took math; at Central Regional, 68.8 percent took language arts and 71.2 percent took math.<\/p>\n

The full school performance reports for Point Pleasant Beach<\/a>, Toms River East<\/a> and Central Regional<\/a> high schools can be found at the links in this article.<\/p>\n

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Bucking a trend seen in numerous school districts across the state, three of the four high schools that educate island teens\u00a0had a majority of students take last year standardized PARCC test. PARCC \u2013 short for\u00a0Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers \u2013 was controversial during the 2014-15 school year, the first time the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,2,92,4,7,5],"tags":[221,512,513,514],"class_list":["post-1886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-lavallette","category-ortley-beach","category-lavallette-school-news","category-seaside-school-news","category-seaside-heights","tag-central-regional-high-school","tag-parcc","tag-point-pleasant-beach-high-school","tag-toms-river-high-school-east"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/3564909187_9159588321_b.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgsn9q-uq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}