BUFFALO — In an era when many students will be taking standardized tests on computers, K-12 teachers must balance the benefits of handwriting assignments with the ever-growing need for typing. Last ...

She grew up to be a bestselling author, despite her test scores. Now, she's pointing out how formal education gets things wrong. Author and literary agent Alexandra Penfold can speak firsthand on how ...

An inescapable element of K-12 public education in the United States is testing. For many students and parents, testing has become ubiquitous. It feels like it is everywhere, every day, all the time.

Here comes another standardized testing season with all the administrator anxiety, teacher turmoil and student disaffection. So much of it that, at least in high schools, those mass assessments do as ...

Standardized tests create an incentive for uniformity when we should be fostering a diversity of pedagogical methods. To the extent that researchers, policymakers, and some educators believe ...

The debate has risen around the increased use of standardized test to judge students achievements and teacher effectiveness. Some people believe that these tests are the best method to evaluate ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A state expert denied Texas made its latest standardized test too difficult, saying Monday that such exams have always gotten harder but students tend to improve their scores over ...

Last fall, when generative AI abruptly started turning out competent high-school- and college-level writing, some educators saw it as an opportunity. Perhaps it was time, at last, to dispose of the ...

As fall arrives, the virulence of the culture wars keeps battering K-12 classrooms and obscuring a more fundamental sickness in our education system, one I am reminded of as Georgia's Fulton County ...

The US Supreme Court will soon rule on whether to end Affirmative Action, prompting many schools to ease -- or even end -- standardized testing requirements in order to boost diversity. Corbis via ...