There’s a difference between teaching to the test and developing test-specific thinking that will help students effectively ...

Steve Dunham is superintendent of the Westhill Central School District. In 2006, New York state started grades 3 through 8 testing in both English Language Arts and Mathematics as a result of a ...

A new paper from Jamil Maroun and Christopher Tienken sets out to determine whether a state’s big standardized test measures student learning, teacher effectiveness, or something else. The answer, it ...

Computer-based state testing was thrown into chaos across New York last week as persistent technical failures plagued schools for two consecutive days. The disruptions — affecting thousands of ...