State officials had to name the lowest category of student test score. They considered Standard Not Met, Inconsistent, Below ...

For many educators, it’s panic time again, following the latest results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, aka the “Nation’s Report Card,” as it has been labeled by the people who are ...

Officials to decide Wednesday how to describe student performance on state tests. New plan moves away from using ...

In the business world, companies that spend billions without achieving measurable success collapse. In government, there is no accountability for agencies like the Department of Education.

Florida students’ low scores on the recent National Assessment for Educational Progress shows state leaders have much to do.

According to a recent educational-progress assessment test, in both reading and math, fourth and eighth-grade charter school ...

Dear Madam Secretary, Congratulations and welcome to a place we once knew well. You face any number of tough challenges on ...

“State tests, for example, gauge performance against states’ curriculum standards, so they’re more closely tied to what students learn in the classroom than NAEP’s measures of more generic math and ...

Four states that the rest of the country should look to as a blueprint for addressing the needs of their education system are ...

Wisconsin is running the other way by lowering its state standards and "cut scores"—the minimum score needed to pass an ...