As reliably as Persephone returns from Hades every Spring to spread light and rebirth, standardized tests emerge from another Netherworld to spread stress and fear. Since business CEOs, politicians ...

The five-year experiment in ignoring SAT and ACT results has failed. Continuing it would be a disservice to students who aren't prepared for college.

Baltimore-area students are showing signs of returning to pre-pandemic levels of proficiency in English language arts but still lag in mathematics, according to newly released scores from a spring ...

DALLAS (AP) — When Tha Cung looked over his sixth-grade class schedule, he took notice of the math block. He had been placed in an advanced class. “I didn’t know ‘honors’ even existed,” he said. Tha ...

Here comes another standardized testing season with all the administrator anxiety, teacher turmoil and student disaffection. So much of it that, at least in high schools, those mass assessments do as ...

Much of the opposition to standardized tests stems not from the idea that they don’t work but from the realization that they ...

As college admission deadlines approach, the debate surrounding standardized testing intensifies. In recent years, the shift towards test-optional and test-blind admissions has garnered significant ...

Last year's testing data shows the Jefferson City School District performing above the state average in most subjects and across grade levels. Data shows more students scoring proficient or advanced ...

Students in grades 3-8 will begin taking new standardized ELA tests on Wednesday, and new math tests are coming soon. These tests have been long in development — they're supposed to measure how well ...