Standardized Testing News

In the past few weeks we have heard horror stories from throughout Indiana about testing under ISTEP+ - particularly the overload of the computer system and the failure of the testing company's servers to handle the testing.

Fighting cancer her entire life, Lyndsey Staub hopes to graduate from Dixie Hollins High School in a few days if she can make up her last bit of work.

The state Senate released a $20.58 billion proposed budget late Sunday night that would eliminate class-size limits for the youngest public school students, move the State Bureau of Investigation to a department the governor's appointee controls and puts various environmental programs under the control of a state agency.

That's one of the state-mandated goalposts local schools are seeing approach as the school year wraps up in Cedar Grove and Verona .

The 2013 Pathfinder winners. Front row, left to right, Shanon Scully, Louis Brion, Libby Koolik, Carey MacDonald and Coleen Chan.

Jesse Hagopian , is a high school history teacher and union rep at Garfield High School in Seattle, Washington.

Everyone's got a neat idea for how to fix colleges. There are plans to give every student a laptop.

Parkway Central High junior Zachary Heiman is in some elite company after earning a perfect score on the ACT exam.

HOPE Christian High School has set an excellent example of education that is making a significant difference in the lives of Milwaukee's young men and women.

"Unfunded mandate." Pick two words that New Hampshire taxpayers detest, and "unfunded mandate" would be high on the list.

The SAT subject test in biology scheduled for June in Korea has now also been cancelled over suspicions that test questions were leaked.

I am now sitting in front of 16 young men and women who are being forced to take a test that means little to them.

Michael Schaeffer, who teaches math at Brayton Elementary School in North Adams, says new students definitely change the dynamics of a classroom.

Sharon With a combined SAT score of 1775, Sharon ranks first out of 48 schools south of Boston, according to data released by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education published by the Boston Globe .

Two Tift County High School seniors have been honored as 2013 Georgia Scholars by the Georgia Department of Education.

York City School District Supt. Deborah Wortham, center, talks to William Penn seniors Martin Tolbert and Dustin Solomon about where they plan to apply for college in this October 2011 photo.

A higher education professor at Penn found that historically black universities are becoming more diverse and continue to face challenges.

One of the biggest challenges California's 1,000 or so school districts face -- the implementation of transformational new Common Core standards, curriculum and testing over the next two years -- may be about to get a lot easier.

Winsford Town clr Mike Burns has set up a Government e-petition calling for lessons on democracy and politics to become part of the national curriculum.

The debate over revamping high school graduation requirements in Colorado has been a slow-burning fire that is about to get a lot hotter.