Students scored generally higher on the 1998 Connecticut Mastery Test, except for sixth- graders taking the math portion of the test. “These are some of the best scores we’ve had in years,” said ...

More than 120,000 fourth-, sixth- and eighth-graders in every public school in the state will sit at their desks this morning and try to write a coherent essay. How they perform has never been under ...

As another school year is getting well under way, educators are faced with starting the process all over again for preparing students for standardized testing. It's not something that can be put off ...