During the past decade, the educators who operate America’s public schools have been increasingly preoccupied with students’ scores on standardized achievement tests. That’s because schools whose ...

Learn about the tests commonly used in diagnosing learning disabilities such as visual-motor integration and achievement. If your child is struggling with school assignments despite showing real ...

There’s no way to sugarcoat it: Americans have been getting dumber. Across a wide range of national and international tests, grade levels and subject areas, American achievement scores peaked about a ...

Each year, America spends roughly $2 billion on standardized achievement tests at the national and state levels. Credit: John Locher/Associated Press The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education.

We must rethink testing to encourage real learning. The “No Child Left Behind” Act of 2001, an enormously important federal law intended to improve America’s public schools, may actually produce the ...

Colorado state officials on Thursday morning released the results of spring 2023 K-12 achievement tests and the results are mixed -- suggesting that where students were developmentally when their ...

This is the second in a series of two posts, the first of which can be found here. Yesterday I showed that, during the pandemic, changes in achievement gaps for US 15 year olds on Program for ...

San Diego Unified student academic achievement fell in the first two tumultuous years of the COVID-19 pandemic, mirroring a national trend, according to new state standardized test scores the school ...

Recently, the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) released its 2022 report on data concerning the pass rates for the licensing exam for social workers. The results of this report were staggering ...

DANVILLE – Around this time last year, East Park Elementary School Principal Valerie Gilbert was in a slight panic. Shortly before third- through fifth-graders were set to take their 2006 state ...