Standardized Testing

Three bills filed in response to El Paso County school scandals are headed to the governor. The bills passed the Texas Senate on Friday as the legislative session enters its final days. Filed in response to cheating in the El Paso Independent School...

In the past few weeks we have heard horror stories from throughout Indiana about testing under ISTEP+ -- particularly the overload of the computer system and the failure of the testing company's servers to handle the testing. This caused Indiana to...

The Baltimore Teacher's Union has called for the district hold off on attaching penalties to schools' performance on the the new  Common Core assessments, citing insufficient professional development and resources to implement the new high-stakes...

By Eric M. Johnson SEATTLE, May 14 (Reuters) - The Seattle public school system, facing a rebellion that stoked the national protest movement over standardized testing in U.S. public schools, is backing away from the contentious multiple-choice exam...

Sarah Thompson and her husband, John, put two daughters through Portland elementary schools. One went to Fred P. Hall. The other went to Longfellow. As far as Sarah Thompson is concerned, neither child got a better education than the other. That's...

TOWN OF TONAWANDA -- Residents brought their questions and concerns to Ken-Ton school board hopefuls Wednesday at the district's Meet the Candidates Night.  The event came less than two weeks before residents will make their choices at...

PolitiFact Georgia and the AJC Truth-O-Meter brought out the calculators last week for three fact checks that put our math skills to the test. We calculated how much time Congress has spent in recess versus working in Washington. We cracked the books to...

We asked you: Should severely disabled students take standardized tests? YES 9% NO 91% Health care or education? What disabled children ... are receiving is not an education but occupational therapy. It should be handled by the health-care system,...

A lengthy and ongoing legislative debate over how much student test scores should count when evaluating teachers continued Wednesday with a new proposal to limit the scores' impact to 10 percent. Boothbay Democrat Rep. Bruce MacDonald's bill, An Act...

In a step some experts think could fuel similar moves elsewhere, a teachers' union has for the first time sued over the specific measures used to calculate teachers' contributions to student learning. The National Education Association, on behalf of...

It's TCAP time in Tennessee, when prepubescent kids -- chocolate milk stains on their shirts and stubby No. 2 pencils clutched tightly in their grip -- spend hours and hours bubbling in question after standardized question. Good moms and dads will...

Students in the Eau Claire school district continue to outperform the state average on standardized test scores, which is a good sign, said Superintendent Mary Ann Hardebeck. The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction on Tuesday released the...