The writer is incorrect in stating the reason for leaving PARCC is because of the "ill-informed and politically driven opposition to President Barack Obama’s approach to education reform." Education is pretty much run by left leaning leaders and the State Board is made up of left leaning people so how do you explain their choice? Are they too "ill-informed and politically driven" in their decision? Stop blaming bad policy choices on the opposing party. Education has a long history of pendulum swings and this is just one of them. Bottom line, PARCC is a flawed test and I suspect that in time Common Core will follow on the heals of the Whole Language Approach back in the late 80's and early 90's that turned out to be a fiasco.