Wicker said the new law may incentivize students to take the tests more seriously. Currently standard tests make up zero percent of any final grades for Virginia students, although students need to ...

House Bill 4 would make the test shorter and base scores on how students’ performance compares to national averages.

The Texas House of Representatives approved a bill Monday that would eliminate the state’s current standardized testing ...

The Texas House gave preliminary approval Monday to a bill that would eliminate STAAR, the high-stakes standardized test that ...

In a rare moment of bipartisan agreement on education policy, Virginia leaders have enacted sweeping changes to the state’s K ...

While summer break is near, May can be an especially stressful time for students as spring testing and final exam season are ...

In the 1954 essay "The Crisis in Education", German-American philosopher Hannah Arendt argued that crisis can act as an ...

April 14: Harvard publicly releases the April 11 letter as well as a response from Garber, who categorically refuses the proposal, saying the government’s demands would violate the First Amendment.

After his job was cut, a CDC scientist volunteered to help Milwaukee respond to the lead crisis in its public schools. For ...

Randi Weingarten has spent most of her career waging high-profile battles in New York politics and on the national stage. Now ...

State Rep. Brad Buckley, a Republican from Salado, said the lengthy tests don’t accurately measure knowledge and place too ...

Adolescence is a time for more trial-and-error learning, taking more worldly risks than before, and learning from good ...