The ninth-grade math test, for example, has a reliability of .84. ... when a failing San Francisco public school was remade with a completely new staff and curriculum.

Should These Tests Get a Failing Grade? I haven’t had to take a standardized test in decades. Before I took the SATs, when I was a senior in high school, I had no coaching or test preparation.

Instead, the agency in charge of unemployment implemented a reading and math quiz. The 45-minute assessment includes questions many middle-schoolers could answer. And while it might measure your ...

A recent report that American students rank lower than their international counterparts in math and science proficiency should give education professionals pause. The results, based on a ...

New York State is facing its biggest budget deficit since Gov. Cuomo took office at the end of the Great Recession — but you’d never know it from watching or listening to the Board of Regents ...

Clearly, happiness does not depend on grades in school for students after all. A mother’s encouraging message to her daughter who was stressing over a poor grade on her math test has gone viral after ...

Under a new state law known as the Third Grade Reading Guarantee, students failing the reading test must be retained starting this school year, with some exceptions for youngsters with special ...