ETS is shopping the GRE and TOEFL, according to a Wall Street Journal report, as graduate admissions shift and international ...

Official-looking booklets are passed out. You hurriedly fill out a scantron. Hours later, the proctor says “pencils down,” and your results are secret for months. This is standardized testing in ...

In August of 2011, an earthquake hit Virginia, with an epicenter somewhere near the Charlottesville area. Though relatively small when compared to typical West Coast earthquakes, the magnitude of the ...

Feb. 24—States will not receive a waiver from standardized assessment tests this year, but the U.S. Department of Education threw them a lifeline on how they can conduct them. In denying waivers for ...

NIXA, Mo. – Students are beginning to take standardized tests in Missouri again. Only this time, their results won’t make schools miss out on funding or recognition. Instead, districts across the ...

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 ...

An amendment to a House bill that would expand a controversial school voucher program in Tennessee also proposes sweeping changes to standardized testing requirements for public school students. The ...

The recommendations, which would have to be approved by the legislature, would also create a new method of assessing student ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Standardized tests, though useful as tools for measuring specific academic ...