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Debates about testing often focus on how different socioeconomic or racial groups compare within the system. Here's the real question: Do these tests even measure what’s important?
President Trump signed a memorandum requiring increased transparency in higher education admissions, which can only be ...
Not just one testing vendor had problems.If you are wondering how the high-stakes standardized testing season is going around the country — including field testing of new Common Core-aligned ...
A big problem needs a big solution, one that could come in the form of a technological revolution in the education system, but can high-tech testing fix America’s standardized test fiasco?
Fortunately, efforts are being made to address the problem of biased tests. Test developers purposefully strive to rework exams to ensure that every test-taker is on an equal playing field.
Eliminating standardized testing from the college admissions process may not make the process more fair for students from historically underrepresented socioeconomic classes, UCLA students and ...
More students in the Wake County Public School System are passing their standardized tests, new state data shows.
When I was the general counsel of the Los Angeles Unified School District, it was extraordinarily difficult to dismiss underperforming teachers who had tenure.
By the time students with disabilities sat down to take California's standardized tests last spring, they had been promised a set of new tools to help them better access the questions.
As many states resume their regular standardized testing schedule, experts say now is the moment to reconsider the format.