New York state will ban "active shooter drills" with actors playing shooters and victims, reports Shayla Colon in the New York Times. ...

New York plans to let students earn a high school diploma without passing Regents exams.

States are jumping on the "science of reading" bandwagon, writes Sarah Schwartz for Education Week. New York, Massachusetts, Indiana,...

For more than a century, New York students have taken Regents exams in multiple subjects to prove they were ready for college-level work,...

New York students will be able to graduate from high school without passing Regents exams, the state education department proposes....

Grades are up! Graduation rates are rising! But that's not good news. Test scores are down, across the country, writes Hechinger's Jill...