As reliably as Persephone returns from Hades every Spring to spread light and rebirth, standardized tests emerge from another Netherworld to spread stress and fear. Since business CEOs, politicians ...

William Liang At the sixth-ranked American public university, UC San Diego, a quarter of students taking a remedial math course placement exam couldn’t solve for x in this equation: 7 + 2 = x + 6. A ...

New York politicians are attempting to get rid of standardized testing to hide poor test scores after closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Getty Images/iStockphoto Parents were right all along — ...

Standardized tests claim to measure student learning, academic achievement, and college readiness. What they actually measure is pattern recognition and the stamina to sit still for three hours and ...

Students in grades 3-8 will begin taking new standardized ELA tests on Wednesday, and new math tests are coming soon. These tests have been long in development — they're supposed to measure how well ...

Much of the opposition to standardized tests stems not from the idea that they don’t work but from the realization that they ...

Senate Bill 19 would mandate intervention services for students scoring "limited" on state tests, but educators worry about ...

DALLAS (AP) — When Tha Cung looked over his sixth-grade class schedule, he took notice of the math block. He had been placed in an advanced class. “I didn’t know ‘honors’ even existed,” he said. Tha ...

Prince George’s County Public Schools released test data that shows a majority of its students scored at levels that were not “meeting expectations” on standardized tests in English and math. During ...

Which standardized tests will my sixth grader take in North Carolina? Public and charter school students in North Carolina will take a variety of tests starting in the third grade. Those tests ...

Rooks is the chair of the Africana Studies department at Brown University. She is the author of six books including Integrated: How American Schools Failed Black Children. Do standardized achievement ...

The standardized tests used for college admissions—tests like the SAT, ACT, LSAT, and GMAT—are some of the most reliable measurement instruments available. They reflect an enormous investment of ...