College students and high-school students preparing to enter college are sorely lacking in the skills needed to retrieve, analyze, and communicate information that is available online, according to ...

The Educational Testing Service is expanding its efforts to measure how savvy students are about technology and about the information that they get online. After unveiling an information-literacy test ...

There’s a lot of debate these days about how to define “technology literacy,” but in a couple years, the National Assessment of Educational Progress will take the unusual step of testing students in ...

Cleveland Elementary School teacher Katia Rodriguez-Mester, left, shows an mCLASS reading test to Principal Gabriel Sandoval and Denise Alvarado, executive director of elementary education for the ...

The third graders in Taj Cole’s class at Atlanta’s Hollis Innovation Academy are armed with thick, heavy dictionaries. They’re working in groups to hunt down definitions of unfamiliar words. First ...

Aug. 13—Drew and Lisa Repp knew something wasn't right when their first son fell behind in school, starting in kindergarten. While bright in many ways, he struggled with reading. They asked about ...

With school back in session for more than 900,000 students in Massachusetts, WAMC spoke with state Education Secretary Dr. Patrick Tutwiler about the new year, a slate of grants and programs aimed at ...