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Both testing companies have pushed into the market for federally required tests in public schools, offering them even to students who do not plan to go to college.

A growing number of minority parents and educators are joining the anti-testing movement.

Ed Trust's new report, Meandering Toward Graduation: Transcript Outcomes of High School Graduates, shows that too many students leave high school with a diploma in hand but no clear path forward.

Academic under-preparation at the high school level is seen across income groups and reflected in widespread remedial education across all colleges.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Dasani Johnson, a sophomore at Southern High School, is using a machine to create a baseball bat out of a piece of foam. Standing over her, as she readies to start the machine, are her teacher and two classmates. A little frustrated by all the attention she's getting, she waves them off, …

Wayne State University drops what has been part of its general-education program for all students, raising the question of which fields are needed by all undergraduates.

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.

Dev Ed Reforms

another misguided shot at standardized testing

blog post by 2014 Michigan Teacher of the Year

The only thing worse than annual statewide standardized testing is not testing kids at all.

Today, I found out from my good friend Doug Edelstein that his school community decided to collectively refuse to administer the new Common Core test, the SBAC, to 11th graders. Doug teaches at, an...

Even some of the most ardent supporters of the standards say the ones developed for the upper grades have weaknesses and should be revisited.

The Common Core standards are supposed to get students ready for college. But colleges don’t seem ready for them. Five years after states across the nation began to adopt the Common Core, colleges have done little to align their admissions criteria, curricula or educational policies with the new standards. And experts warn that the inertia could...