Professional standards for education research assessment have been overhauled for the first time in 15 years to incorporate new test methods and technology, as well as to better address testing ...

California’s new legislative leaders on education will announce plans today to reevaluate the state’s testing system because they are concerned it does not accurately measure student achievement. The ...

This blog is going to cover a lot of ground, ranging from Sherlock Holmes to the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) act. I am going to deal with a possible unintended result of current educational testing ...

There are valid criticisms about the current structure of state standardized testing in schools; the solution is not to get rid of these assessments but rather to design them differently. Federal law ...

Most of the biggest contracts being awarded by the two main consortia creating online common-core assessments—perhaps the most ambitious and complex testing projects in U.S. history—are flowing to ...

He also turned two Manhattan districts into national models. But his tangled personal finances forced him to resign as the city’s first Hispanic schools chief. By Sam Roberts Graduate school ...