Big name standardized assessments—like the SAT, ACT, and many state exams—give test takers the opportunity to listen to a ...

Declining test scores across the U.S. cause concern. So do reports on student mental health and anxiety. Now that the 2023-24 school year is in session, standardized testing and other forms of student ...

Why have student test scores been declining for a decade in America? It’s hardly breaking news that American students are behind academically from where they used to be. But the specifics can get lost ...

The Kansas Senate failed to override vetoes targeting education policy in the state budget, stopping a plan to restructure ...

A decade after Connecticut switched to the Smarter Balanced Assessment to measure academic performance, the debate about “over testing,” student anxiety, costs and “teaching to the test” continues.

Are you smarter than an Eighth Grader? Stacker uses real questions from a national eighth grade assessment test to find out.

Cuts to the Department of Education are hitting national student assessments even as sirens blare on student test scores. The 17-year-old long-term National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) ...

Although national test scores provide clear evidence on student achievement across time, they do not illuminate what is driving gains or losses. Nonetheless, careful examination of test scores can ...

HELENA, Mont. — Superintendent Elsie Arntzen released the 2023-2024 student assessment scores for math and reading for grades three through eight and ELA proficiency for the grade 11 ACTs. The ...

The share of students proficient in math, English and science is up for the first time since the pandemic – but passing rates remain well below pre-pandemic levels. Fourth-grade students wait for the ...

The MAP measures learning for all students at the same time with the same test. This allows us to identify both ...

A new report from the Connecticut Department of Education states that students show up to school more and do better on tests. Education Commissioner Charlene Russell-Tucker met with representatives of ...