Washington, D.C. — With the debate over standardized testing reaching a fever pitch, a new report from the Center for American Progress finds a culture of testing and test preparation across many ...
Includes updates and/or revisions. When Michael Hock was a special education teacher, he spent hours slicing quarter-inch slits in the center of index cards so that his students could use them to ...
In the face of rising opposition to testing, the PARCC consortium has decided to carve 90 minutes off its 10- to 11-hour-long assessment, and shift the start of testing to later in the school year.
A California judge’s decision on Tuesday to throw out some of that state’s teacher tenure and seniority laws seemed to overshadow another piece of interesting news: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ...
Students at the Mason Classical Academy in Naples, Florida, did rank highly among schools in the local district for English Language Arts and Mathematics in 2017, and their scores improved from the ...
Students at Cincinnati Public Schools have been receiving bi-weekly tests in core subjects since at least early October, a practice instituted by the Board of Education. But teachers and parents are ...