Science is always advancing—but kids still need to start with the basics, from how animals are born to the way electricity flows. The National Assessment of Educational Progress, which measures ...

The Mississippi Department of Education this week released sample questions from a third-grade reading test that will determine the fate of some 38,000 students statewide. The Third-Grade Reading ...

Author and literary agent Alexandra Penfold can speak firsthand on how standardized testing shouldn’t define young students. One of her tweets from July 2018 about academic performance is making its ...

The numbers for the state's fourth-grade writing tests should be out, but they are not because there is a problem with the scores. State school leaders held up grading of tests to check reliability of ...

State Education Department officials admitted yesterday that one of the questions on the fourth-grade standardized reading examination was flawed and have scrapped it from the test scores of students.

When you hear people talk about the explosion of standardized testing in public education in the No Child Left Behind/Race to the Top era, it may be hard to understand just what that means to a ...