There’s a difference between teaching to the test and developing test-specific thinking that will help students effectively apply what they’ve learned all year.

This summer, New York City schools are preparing for a shift in reading instruction, and recent reports indicate that it’s not just for lower grades, but for high schools as well. One shift in ...

Data from federal standardized test scores points to another startling effect the COVID-19 pandemic had on America's children, with numbers indicating that reading and math scores for 13-year-olds ...

Standardized testing has long been a contentious topic in the field of education. While the primary goal of standardized testing is to measure student achievement and set benchmarks for educational ...

Last fall, when generative AI abruptly started turning out competent high-school- and college-level writing, some educators saw it as an opportunity. Perhaps it was time, at last, to dispose of the ...

A national standardized test showed the largest decrease in math and reading scores since 1990. Age 9 students lost five points in reading and seven points in math in 2022 compared to 2020. Remote ...

The COVID pandemic hit public education very, very hard. It shut down schools, forcing students and teachers to discover the ins and outs of virtual learning on the fly. It kept kids separated from ...

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IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Born in Kansas, Walter Scott Monroe ...

South Carolina doesn’t get much authentically good news about public education. What passes for celebration-worthy is usually along the lines of "our test scores didn’t drop as much as the national ...

Critics of standardized tests won a big victory recently, as the American Bar Association came much closer to allowing law schools to go test optional. It’s not over yet: the final decision hasn’t ...

Yale University will once again require standardized test scores for undergraduate admissions, after the school found they were a better indicator of a student’s grades in college, reversing a ...