From the Texas Education Agency: AUSTIN, TX – Commissioner of Education Michael Williams has advised superintendents he will allow districts to satisfy a requirement to use graphing calculators for ...

BAYONNE, N.J. (CBSNewYork)-- Parents are upset over a mix-up with a standardized test as kids from one New Jersey school were given the wrong exam. CBS2's Meg Baker reported 34 eighth-graders at ...

ALBANY — Less than half of New York students scored at or above grade level in English and math, according to the grade 3-8 assessment results. In English, the results were slightly higher than they ...

Ontario students were the only ones in the country who did not show a statistically significant improvement over a six-year period in math, according to the latest standardized test results by an ...

Numbers Geek is a GeekWire podcast and video series that uses numbers and data to illuminate and explain some of the biggest issues facing the country and the world. by Todd Bishop on Dec 11, 2018 at ...

This week, more than a third of students in Monroe County's suburban school districts declined to take the state English language arts exam for grades 3-8. The next round comes Wednesday, the first of ...

Most states have raised their cutoff scores for proficiency on state tests in the last decade, according to a study released Wednesday. That “mapping” process found that states have made it harder for ...

At its meeting next week, the California State Board of Education will consider eliminating the incentive for schools to offer a full Algebra 1 course to students ready to take Algebra by 8 th grade.

SEATTLE — State and federal education spending for K-12 schools in Washington is way up, but test scores in fourth grade reading and eighth grade math are dropping, according to a non-partisan ...

The Horseheads school district reported Monday that 23 percent of students refused state math tests given last week while 18 percent declined to take state English language arts test the week prior.

(NEXSTAR) — Are you smarter than a North Carolina fifth-grader taking their end-of-grade math test? As another new school year is underway, it’s never a bad idea to know what the kids are learning — ...

The reading and math skills of fourth and eighth grade students has declined in multiple U.S. states, according to a recent report, New Mexico having the lowest averages. Newsweek has contacted the ...