How low can college-readiness expectations go?

Should testing be required to see if students are learning in publicly funded choice programs?

Without SAT or ACT scores, University of California at San Diego is seeing a "steep decline" in academic readiness.

A fuzzy "portrait of a graduate" will replace New York's Regents exams.

A majority of black, Hispanic and low-income fourth-graders have "below basic" reading skills. Does it matter?

Los Angeles Unified will let 10 schools with low-income students drop standardized tests in favor of their own assessments.

Wisconsin is lowering expectations for students.

The Zeitgeist, it is a changing. First, the New York Times ran David Leonhardt's defense of college admissions tests as a way to...

"(Are you ready?) Yes, I'm ready . . . I don't even know how to hold your hand Just to make you understand But I'm ready (ready) to learn...