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An ESSA provision that lets states use college-entrance exams to measure student achievement could spur a profound shift in high school testing.

The number of students completing high school has reached historic peaks, yet other measures of academic readiness for college or jobs are much lower.

Looking back on her junior year at Saint Agnes Academic High School in the College Point neighborhood of Queens, Viktoria Mertiri admits that trigonometry "was the death of me. I never understood it." But Mertiri scored a 70 on the New York Regents Examination, a state standardized test of core high school subjects. It was …

Two studies show successful pass rates from Tennessee's first full semester of putting all developmental students in college-level courses.

Statistical courses, rather than algebra remediation, do a better job at helping first-year students succeed when they test into developmental education, a new report finds.

Students at Michigan State University will no longer have to take college-level algebra, thanks to a revision of the general-education math requirement.

Nine institutions in Pierce County, Wash., are working together to foster a college-going culture among local K-12 students.

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Research shows that an emphasis on memorization, rote procedures and speed impairs learning and achievement 

Student readiness to press for new rules and rituals reflects a growing sense that they are customers, and entitled to satisfaction.