"Common Core State Standards: An Example of
Data-less Decision Making" article slams the Common Core movement. From the Journal of Scholarship and Practice of the American Assoc. of School Administrators.
This looks like a great app to record 1:1 conferences with students for reading, writing, math, etc. The lite version only allows you to keep records for 10 students, the full version costs 14.99. 3rd grade made a form to use last year on googledocs, but this seems a bit easier.