{"id":862,"date":"2022-12-15T18:53:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T18:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wptest.mdek12.org\/testsite2\/2022\/12\/15\/mde-earns-approval-from-u-s-department-of-education-to-use-cambridge-assessment-in-corinth-school-district_20221215\/"},"modified":"2024-08-08T14:18:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T14:18:22","slug":"mde-earns-approval-from-u-s-department-of-education-to-use-cambridge-assessment-in-corinth-school-district_20221215","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/2022\/12\/15\/mde-earns-approval-from-u-s-department-of-education-to-use-cambridge-assessment-in-corinth-school-district_20221215\/","title":{"rendered":"MDE Earns Approval from U.S. Department of Education to Use Cambridge Assessment in Corinth School District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEWS RELEASE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For Immediate Release: Dec. 15, 2022<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 13px\">JACKSON, Miss. \u2013 The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) earned approval on Nov. 30 from the U. S. Department of Education (ED) to use the Cambridge International General Certificate of Secondary Education (Cambridge Assessment) as the state high school assessments in the Corinth School District and other districts that choose to adopt the Cambridge program.<\/p>\n<p>The approval will allow the MDE to include Cambridge high school assessment scores in the state accountability system for the 2022-23 school year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMississippi is one of four states to clear the U.S. Department of Education\u2019s rigorous peer review process to implement a locally selected, nationally recognized high school assessment in the state\u2019s accountability system,\u201d said Dr. Kim S. Benton, state superintendent of education, interim. \u201cWe are working with Corinth to provide additional information to the U.S. Department of Education to ensure this approval will extend beyond the 2022-23 school year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Corinth School District worked with MDE to gain ED approval for Mississippi to use the Cambridge Assessment in place of the Mississippi Academic Assessment Program (MAAP) for its high school courses because the district has used the Cambridge curriculum since 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The ED approval cleared the way for the Corinth School District to only administer Cambridge end-of-course assessments for high school English Language Arts, mathematics, science and U.S. History. Previously, Corinth\u2019s high school students had to take both MAAP and Cambridge end-of-course assessments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReceiving this approval from the U.S. Department of Education is very affirming and encouraging after a four-year process,\u201d said Dr. Lee Childress, superintendent of Corinth School District. \u201cThis approval allows us to continue providing our students with a world-class 21st-century educational experience. We are grateful for the steadfast support of the Corinth community during this time and appreciate the support and assistance of Cambridge International Assessment Program and the Mississippi Department of Education during this process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Find all MDE news releases at <a href=\"\/news\"><u>mdek12.org\/news<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: Dec. 15, 2022 JACKSON, Miss. \u2013 The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) earned approval on Nov. 30 from the U. S. Department of Education (ED) to use the Cambridge International General Certificate of Secondary Education (Cambridge Assessment) as the state high school assessments in the Corinth School District and other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2755,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions\/2755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}