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PARCC is the organization New Jersey is associated with for State testing, but the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium is also a good resource for Common Core standard-related assessment items.

The NJ DOE Office of Assessment prepared this slide show about the Spring 2014 NJ ASK. This document is a PDF version of their PowerPoint, and its relevant sections will be shared with you at CPT and department meetings.

Create online assessments for free. PARCC like to some degree.

How do you know if your students are meeting the standards? The Evidence Statements from PARCC will help you determine whether or not your students are making progress toward the PARCC assessments.

Wondering how many points PARCC assigns to each Task Type on the EOY (end of year) assessment? This page will show you.

Try some "live" math problems online from Smarter Balanced. Not PARCC, but the rigor is good.

This Education Week opinion piece is from a high school math teacher in Kentucky, where the entire state has pulled together to implement the CCSS in a comprehensive, unified manner.

This Louisiana DOE web page has some pretty good links to PARCC information in general, but Louisiana has also prepared some documents that consolidate scattered PARCC documents into one area. Very nice.

This is the NJ ASK information booklet that is sent home with students. It is produced by the NJ Department of Education, and it has information about the NJ ASK as well as sample items.

This is the NJ DOE's model curriculum site. If you need course overviews that put the Common Core standards into units of study, this site can really help. A point to the DOE for a quality product! One of the best features is the sample assessment (and answer key) for each unit. They are username/password protected. You may use "model" for the username and "curriculum" for the password.

This "All Things CCSS" resource page may be your one-stop shopping site for PARCC and CCSS.