A lot has changed with the PARCC and Smarter Balanced tests since they were first launched in 2015. Here are a few things you need to know about them to keep your cocktail party conversation ...

At Kraxberger Middle School in Gladstone, P.E. teacher Rob Hill and vice principal Lori Buchanan read through a practice version of the Smarter Balanced test, looking for skills students will need and ...

The state of South Dakota has been administering the Smarter Balanced Assessment since the Spring semester of 2015. Not much has changed since the initial implementation of the tests until this year.

Although Wisconsin students won't be taking the new Smarter Balanced Assessment exams until spring of 2015, area districts have already been preparing for them by doing practice tests. For more ...

California’s students’ Smarter Balanced test scores rose marginally in 2018-19, the fifth year of the tests, while showing little to no progress in closing wide disparities among ethnic, racial and ...