Schools serving mainly poor and minority students end up teaching the basic skills and schools serving more advantaged students, knowing...

You want my kids to go to your schools? Show me they’re learning, writes Citizen Stewart in a defense of test-based accountability....

Pearson’s “automated scoring program graded some 34 million student essays on state and national high-stakes tests last year,” she...

classified as disabled, largely because of mental-health issues such as depression or anxiety,” reports Douglas Belkin in the Wall Street...

We’re teaching reading wrong, writes Natalie Wexler in The Atlantic. U.S. schools spend a lot of time on reading skills in the early...

Reading and math proficiency isn’t improving for fourth- and eighth-graders, according to the 2017 National Assessment of Education...

California may let schools replace 11th-grade Smarter Balanced tests with the SAT or ACT, reports CALmatters’ Felicia Mello. That might...

States vow to graduate students who are college- and career-ready but have no idea if they’re succeeding, writes Checker Finn. The...

Kate Walsh of the National Council on Teacher Quality is tired of apologizing for her “narrow-minded” focus on academic goals as the way...

Ten years later after the Atlanta cheating scandal broke, “educators continue to fight to clear their names and the district attempts to...

Testing enables social justice, argues Keri Rodrigues, founder and CEO of Massachusetts Parents United in CommonWealth Magazine. Minority...

When students are allowed to retake tests for a better grade, what do they learn? Julie Scagell, a Minnesota mother, wonders if her...

How should an elementary school deploy its best teachers? Many would argue that first grade is the most critical grade — or maybe...

Indiana’s private schools now “live or die by test scores,” reports Dylan Peers McCoy for Chalkbeat. If schools don’t score well enough...

Chicago’s North Lawndale neighborhood. Photo: Linda Lutton/WBEZ “School is what makes the American Dream possible,” writes WBEZ reporter...