While state education officials are pleased the latest statewide test scores exceed federal requirements, the results from the achievement tests for Missouri students shouldn't make anyone jump for ...

WALKING the same halls once trod by Jimi Hendrix, Quincy Jones, Bruce Lee, Brandon Roy and Macklemore makes teaching at Garfield High School exhilarating. When I look at the students in my history ...

Superintendent of Centralia Public Schools, Glenn Brown, said recent test preparation questions used for the MAP tests are unacceptable. "It's obviously a regrettable situation that has occurred," he ...

What started as one school’s protest against the MAP test has quickly ignited a storm. First other schools in Seattle started weighing in, then the NAACP and now, in the most striking demonstration of ...

For about a month each spring, Dr. Sam Duncan's job as director of state and federal programs in the Jackson School District starts to seem a little like that of a top-secret agent. Duncan is in ...

The Blair Oaks School District's results from the Missouri Assessment Program, commonly referred to as the MAP test, show the district above the state average in every subject, sometimes by as much as ...