The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) voted 4-3 Tuesday on a resolution that would allow 10 schools to opt out of standardized tests and test preparation beginning in the 2025-26 school ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology became a standardized-testing outlier when it decided in March to reinstate SAT and ACT tests for applicants. Shutterstock. While average GPAs rose from 3 ...

Standardized tests have proved to offer a valuable measure of students’ overall ability. Now, state lawmakers are proposing to add to the available testing options.

Standardized testing was placed on hold as schools struggled to save their students from falling years behind in their education. With the 2021-2022 school year, ...

Goodbye No. 2 pencils: What the SAT going digital means for college admissions The SAT is going fully digital. The standardized college admissions test will no longer be offered on paper starting ...

Harvard College has reinstated its standardized testing requirement and will require applicants to submit standardized test scores for next year’s admissions cycle.. Students applying to Harvard ...

Why is standardized testing the lifeblood of education policy? We're failing our students. I wonder if those who mandate tests then crush us with data know how school resources are allocated to ...

Perhaps not. Standardized tests have always been a solid predictor of student success (when combined with other factors), and they offer a consistent measuring device of student preparation ...

How cheating on standardized tests can be a criminal act. In Atlanta, 11 former public school teachers, principals and administrators were convicted of racketeering charges for cheating on ...

In theory then, opting out of standardized testing ought to be a fairly simple process. However, there are some limits to this. Page and Guisbond both note that in their state of Massachusetts ...

Large-scale annual standardized testing has been federal public school policy for over 20 years. During that time, billions of dollars of taxpayer monies have been spent to design, purchase ...