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Official-looking booklets are passed out. You hurriedly fill out a scantron. Hours later, the proctor says “pencils down,” and your results are secret for months. This is standardized testing in ...

Jim Wismer, Director of Community Relations with the National Test Prep Association and Director of Ivy Experience, is addressing the resurgence of standardized testing as universities pivot back to ...

In a recent tweet, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, asserted: "Standardized testing doesn't help kids learn, and it doesn't help teachers teach." Instead, she argued ...

In the American school system, standardized tests are so much a fixture of education that most of us do not even question their existence. For most of us, these tests are just a reality of going ...

STAAR tests are far from the only standardized exams students take each year. Some districts also give students optional ...