Every year, policymakers across the U.S. make life-changing decisions based on the results of standardized tests. These high-stakes decisions include, but are not limited to, student promotion to the ...

Official-looking booklets are passed out. You hurriedly fill out a scantron. Hours later, the proctor says “pencils down,” and your results are secret for months. This is standardized testing in ...

Last spring, the University of Austin in Texas, declaring the college admissions system “biased,” “broken” and “unjust,” ...

In a recent tweet, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, asserted: "Standardized testing doesn't help kids learn, and it doesn't help teachers teach." Instead, she argued ...

Since this past March, schools across the United States have been intermittently shuttered and (partially) reopened – in most cases, with little notice to students, families, and educators. Since ...

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 ...

The Biden Administration is not letting schools off the hook this year when it comes to standardized testing. Sign up for our Daily eBlast to get coverage on Black communities from the media company ...

An amendment to a House bill that would expand a controversial school voucher program in Tennessee also proposes sweeping changes to standardized testing requirements for public school students. The ...

The New Mexico Public Education Department urged schools to ramp up standardized testing this fall to pinpoint potential learning gaps caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an announcement ...

RALEIGH, N.C. — Starting in third grade, your child will begin taking standardized tests in North Carolina. What do they take and when? It all depends on the grade and school district they are in.