Standardized Testing News

The Texas Senate passed a $94.6 billion budget, top policymakers reached overhauling public education and Gov.

House and Senate negotiators have reached a deal to overhaul high school standardized testing and curriculum standards while increasing the number of charter schools in Texas.

In mythology, Arcadia is utopia, Eden, Pan's paradise, a virgin wilderness with nymphs frolicking in lush forests, that longed-for pastoral setting in perfect harmony with nature.

Milwaukee Public Schools ' Rufus King International School has won ACT's national College and Career Transition Award for high schools.

For my first Easter Sunday in New York, I drove to Queens with my significant other to spend the holiday with a fellow alum from Tennessee State University.

Math teacher Suzanne Hughes works with eighth-grader Anisha Kakarlamudi at Thomas Russell Middle School on Wednesday morning, May 22, 2013, in Milpitas, Calif.

The state on Friday released its annual list of K-12 school rankings based on student performance on standardized tests, revealing little in the way of surprise for the South Bay and Harbor Area, where nearly 60 percent of the schools surpassed the statewide average.

More than 6,600 Fairfax County students had their statewide Standards of Learning standardized tests rescheduled after an Internet outage on Thursday.

In this week's issue of The City Paper , Andrea Zelinski looks at the issue of student attrition and finds Metro schools officials and charter schools advocates doing different math to quantify the problem.

The theme of Friday morning's breakfast was "It's a Small World After All," focusing on how schools can prepare for the global marketplace.

The Community Action Center has received a College Ready grant for $126,345 from the Great Lakes Higher Education Guaranty Corporation to support the TORCH project.

ACT Minister for Education and training Joy Burch today joined Warehouse Circus to launch the new 'Circus Space' at University of Canberra High School Kaleen.

Amid complaints of disruption and angst in the classrooms, the state's major teachers union launched a petition drive asking parents to protest the use of a new set of standardized tests.

The scores that the State of Tennessee send home with kids for parents for TCAPs are vastly different from the scores they give teachers and schools.

BATON ROUGE, La. - A tea party-backed attempt to keep Louisiana from using a set of uniform national standards for public school testing will be considered by the state Senate.

Earlier this year, Maine faced a bill that would allow public schools to offer single-gender classrooms.

Rebekah Brockman and Jack Cutmore-Scott in A.C.T.is production of Tom Stoppardis Arcadia, directed by Carey Perloff.

DODEA operates schools overseas and at some U.S. locations for the children of military families.

Fort Wayne Community Schools has refused to accept results - good or bad - from this year's ISTEP+ exam and is calling on lawmakers to re-evaluate the state's system of accountability centered on test scores.

One Ridgewood parent's two sons won't be stressing out about standardized tests this week.