The ability to write cogently, quickly and under pressure, helped me get into and through college. However, a growing list of selective...

“It’s no use if my kids are on the school’s honor roll if they are not proficient in reading and math,” a mother tells LA School Report’s...

Pearson’s “automated scoring program graded some 34 million student essays on state and national high-stakes tests last year,” she...

Well, it looks like tracking to me. And I’m fine with it. Jonathan Plucker, a Johns Hopkins education professor, sees “a subtle shift” in...

New York City’s elite high schools are filled with Asian-American students — many from low-income, immigrant families — who’ve aced the...

classified as disabled, largely because of mental-health issues such as depression or anxiety,” reports Douglas Belkin in the Wall Street...

Students defended their Providence, Rhode Island middle school in a panel discussion sponsored by Generation Citizen, reports the...

Many believe “extrinsic” motivators, such as incentives,  “decrease student effort by eroding students’ intrinsic desire to learn,” they...

At colleges that don’t require applicants to submit SAT or ACT scores, students admitted on grades alone are just as likely to graduate...

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.”...