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

Many believe “extrinsic” motivators, such as incentives,  “decrease student effort by eroding students’ intrinsic desire to learn,” they...

all their students made the grade — not just some of them, not just the White ones and the middle-class ones.” Under No Child Left Behind...

How do we measure a school’s success? School of choice that raise reading and math scores don’t always improve later outcomes, such as...

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

Once upon a time, 45 states adopted Common Core standards and exams — either the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and...

Washington, D.C. public schools were held up as a model of “expert driven” education reform, writes Max C. Eden and Lindsey Burke on...

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

Federal education law encourage schools to fudge graduation rates, writes Laura Jimenez, director of standards and accountability for the...

Standardized test scores matter, writes Ryan Williams-Virden,  dean of students at Minneapolis’ Hiawatha Collegiate High School, on...

Orange is the new red for California schools, writes New America’s Conor Williams in The 74. Twice as many schools fell in the bottom...

Public school officials are “using fraudulent methods to inflate graduation rates,” writes Bernard Gassaway in Education Week. He saw it...

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...

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s state budget plan lets schools set their own days and hours of instruction, reports the Milwaukee...

Is Test-Based Accountability Dead? asks Education Next. Since No Child Left Behind passed in 2001, holding schools accountable for their...

After three years without a school accountability system, California Superintendent Tom Torlakson lauded the California School Dashboard...

It’s getting harder to hold schools accountable for performance writes Lane Wright on Education Post. The Education Department’s new ESSA...

High schools are inflating graduation rates and test scores by steering low achievers to alternative schools, reports ProPublica and USA...