WESTERVILLE, Ohio - Grading a student answer each minute could easily be overwhelming for the 121 graders at Pearson Inc.'s Ohio scoring center for the new Common Core exams from PARCC. But this ...

The math exam that has made it difficult for hundreds of new North Carolina teachers to get their license could be phased out as early as February, based on a recent vote by a panel of state education ...

For more than five months, North Carolina’s education leaders have been agonizing over a math test that has posed a barrier for hundreds of elementary school teachers trying to get their license and ...

The state Education Department is dropping its supplier of standardized math and English exams, Pearson PLC, in favor of a new firm, Questar Assessment. In making the announcement Thursday, education ...

Fourth grade teacher Brian Pattison works on a math problem for his students at the Lake Myra Elementary School in Wendell, N.C. Staff 2013 News & Observer file photo Almost 2,400 North Carolina ...