Students in grades 3-8 will begin taking new standardized ELA tests on Wednesday, and new math tests are coming soon. These tests have been long in development — they're supposed to measure how well ...

Student participation in a district-designed test battery is lower than Pine Bluff School District Superintendent Jennifer Barbaree would like. Only 71% of students in grades 3-10 have taken the ...

In nearly all grade levels, Washington students’ performance on the new Common Core-based tests, called Smarter Balanced, surpassed their peers in the 14 other states that take those exams. In math, ...

Monday marked the start of a multiweek window for school districts statewide to administer the standardized English Language Arts and math exams in grades 3-8, with more schools giving the tests ...

The number of third-graders reading at grade level in the School District of Manatee County increased for the second year in a row. Fifty percent of Manatee’s third-grade students are reading at grade ...

Concerns that new math standards were setting schools up to fail reached a tipping point Wednesday when Texas Education Commissioner Michael Williams announced that math test scores for grades three ...