I have never been good at standardized tests. In fact, I’m horrible. The problem is that in standardized tests, as opposed to general knowledge or understanding of a particular problem, you need to ...

North Carolina education officials are recommending that the state end a testing requirement for college students who want to become teachers. Typically, for a college sophomore to be admitted into a ...

Achievement tests are necessary for evaluating student mastery and growth. Yet achievement data as the sole determinant of student success can unintentionally leave some children behind. As a former ...

At some point during the year, most students in U.S. schools will take a benchmark test. These tests, also called interim assessments, are designed to measure students’ progress toward instructional ...

EdSource · How one student got her middle school to change its name (rebroadcast) Next week, the unpopular teacher licensure test, the Reading Instruction Competence Assessment, will be officially ...

Dallas ISD superintendent Stephanie S. Elizalde delivers her remarks during 2023 Dallas ISD State of the District on Thursday, May 4, 2023 at Omni Dallas Hotel in Dallas. Shafkat Anowar / Staff ...

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 ...

Standardized tests should be used as “a flashlight” on what works in education not as “a hammer” to force outcomes, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said during a speech last week. The statement ...

Para leer en español, haz clic aquí. Kindergartners at Pella Christian Grade School made themselves comfortable at their lunch tables, playfully throwing their carrots in the air, wiggling around on ...

Peter Wilds-Bethea never intended to become a teacher. He started going to school in his home town of Darlington, South Carolina, around the time of the Brown v. Board of Education decision.