It seems that early release of PARCC test results is all the rage among PARCC states. At first, PARCC was reluctant on September 10, 2015, to release its complete set of freshly-minted cut scores, but it did so by the end of the day.

The word from PARCC communications director, David Connerty-Marin, was that PARCC states would release results “on its own timeline.”

Apparently for some states, that time is now.

That was a Thursday. On Monday, September 14, 2015, Ohio was the first PARCC state to release information about its online PARCC test results; then, in a September 15, 2015, memo to the state ed board, Massachusetts commissioner Mitchell Chester wrote that Massachusetts would release prelim PARCC results on September 21, 2015.

Now, on September 16, 2015, Illinois has released information about its online PARCC results.

Of course, the Illinois PARCC results are lousy. No news there. That’s the story…