Official-looking booklets are passed out. You hurriedly fill out a scantron. Hours later, the proctor says “pencils down,” and your results are secret for months. This is standardized testing in ...

The recommendations, which would have to be approved by the legislature, would also create a new method of assessing student ...

Each year, America spends roughly $2 billion on standardized achievement tests at the national and state levels. Credit: John Locher/Associated Press The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education.

NIXA, Mo. – Students are beginning to take standardized tests in Missouri again. Only this time, their results won’t make schools miss out on funding or recognition. Instead, districts across the ...

In August of 2011, an earthquake hit Virginia, with an epicenter somewhere near the Charlottesville area. Though relatively small when compared to typical West Coast earthquakes, the magnitude of the ...

In a recent tweet, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, asserted: "Standardized testing doesn't help kids learn, and it doesn't help teachers teach." Instead, she argued ...

The Biden Administration is not letting schools off the hook this year when it comes to standardized testing. Sign up for our Daily eBlast to get coverage on Black communities from the media company ...

An amendment to a House bill that would expand a controversial school voucher program in Tennessee also proposes sweeping changes to standardized testing requirements for public school students. The ...

The New Mexico Public Education Department urged schools to ramp up standardized testing this fall to pinpoint potential learning gaps caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an announcement ...

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The debate about standardized testing for students in 2021 is continuing to rage, or at least continuing on a slow, endless simmer. The argument in favor of collecting data is a compelling one. It is ...