If your kids seem a little dazed these next few weeks, it’s because they're taking yet another standardized test. Hundreds of thousands of kids across Colorado are logging onto computers for several ...

Statewide math scores went up, but English performance dipped and high school results were the lowest among all grade levels in both subjects in the second year of the controversial PARCC exams. The ...

If you’re a teacher in a state that will take the PARCC or Smarter Balanced common-core-aligned assessments next spring, you know by now that the performance tasks for math are going to be hard—likely ...

“I don’t know what it’s going to take!” A colleague told me as she we reviewed PARCC assessment data this past summer. “My teachers are working their hearts out. My students are engaged. Why can’t we ...

The Western Albemarle High School student was asked to remove the hat and refused. (Thinkstock) WASHINGTON — Newly released test scores show that despite some modest improvements, most Maryland ...

Many teachers, students and parents have railed about Illinois’ math and reading exams for third- through eighth-graders. The tests, known as PARCC, are long and hard. Many students don’t pass.

PATERSON — More than 98 percent of the students at six Paterson high schools failed to attain passing math scores in this year’s standardized state tests, according to statistics released at Wednesday ...

Santa Fe students made slight gains in math this year but fell behind in reading and writing, according to test data released Thursday by state Public Education Secretary Hanna Skandera. The bottom ...

Maryland public school students improved their performance slightly in the second year of tough new state tests, but overall, in every grade and subject, fewer than half the students were able to pass ...