We’re teaching reading wrong, writes Natalie Wexler in The Atlantic. U.S. schools spend a lot of time on reading skills in the early...

Reading and math proficiency isn’t improving for fourth- and eighth-graders, according to the 2017 National Assessment of Education...

Test scores matter, writes Erika Sanzi on Good School Hunting. In deciding where to build its second headquarters (HQ2), Amazon is...

Baptiste Delvallé doesn’t let students retake quizzes and tests, he writes in Education Week. Here’s how I explain it to my students. If...

How do we measure a school’s success? School of choice that raise reading and math scores don’t always improve later outcomes, such as...

California may let schools replace 11th-grade Smarter Balanced tests with the SAT or ACT, reports CALmatters’ Felicia Mello. That might...

Once upon a time, 45 states adopted Common Core standards and exams — either the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and...

States vow to graduate students who are college- and career-ready but have no idea if they’re succeeding, writes Checker Finn. The...

Kate Walsh of the National Council on Teacher Quality is tired of apologizing for her “narrow-minded” focus on academic goals as the way...

Test-optional college admissions tilts the playing field just a little bit more, writes Kelly Ochs Rosinger, a Penn education professor,...

sheepskin effect” requires a master’s degree. “If trends continue, by 2025 we will be offering master’s degrees in janitorial science.”...

Community college placement tests create a “segregation machine,” pushing Latinos and blacks to dead-end remedial courses, a professor...

Ten years later after the Atlanta cheating scandal broke, “educators continue to fight to clear their names and the district attempts to...

Testing enables social justice, argues Keri Rodrigues, founder and CEO of Massachusetts Parents United in CommonWealth Magazine. Minority...

Teacher performance pay is linked to a slightly better math and reading results in a new federal study reports Liana Loewus in Education...

Standardized test scores matter, writes Ryan Williams-Virden,  dean of students at Minneapolis’ Hiawatha Collegiate High School, on...

When students are allowed to retake tests for a better grade, what do they learn? Julie Scagell, a Minnesota mother, wonders if her...

To be considered “proficient,” Illinois juniors will have to “earn a higher score on the SAT than the one that’s correlated with college...

As states try to boost high school graduation rates, exit exams are losing favor. “In 2013-14, some 24 states had an exit exam or...

Scores are up on the redesigned SAT, reports Education Week‘s Catherine Gewertz. That doesn’t mean students are better prepared:...