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

Discover the hidden power and racial biases of standardized testing. Learn how it perpetuates inequality and harms Black ...

Much of the opposition to standardized tests stems not from the idea that they don’t work but from the realization that they ...

In a recent tweet, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, asserted: "Standardized testing doesn't help kids learn, and it doesn't help teachers teach." Instead, she argued ...

Practically every child in K-12 schools in the United States has taken one standardized test or another. Standardized tests have long been used to measure academic achievements in U.S. schools. Most ...

Listening recently to a local political candidate denigrate public education in Nevada was very disheartening. Not because of character flaws or perceived inability of the candidate. He, like most ...

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 year ...

William Liang At the sixth-ranked American public university, UC San Diego, a quarter of students taking a remedial math course placement exam couldn’t solve for x in this equation: 7 + 2 = x + 6. A ...

A coalition of 25 disability rights groups is urging Miguel Cardona — who’s undergoing confirmation hearings this week to be President Joe Biden’s Education Secretary — to reinstate standardized ...

Standardized testing is at the heart of most issues regarding education and is a billion-dollar industry. The main benefit of testing is providing an efficient way to rank and sort students, but there ...

The University of Alabama will require standardized testing as part of its admissions review process, ending its ...

Dartmouth College will once again require standardized college admissions tests in order to be admitted to the school, a reversal for the Ivy League school that was one of a thousand schools that made ...