Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New data from The Nation's Report Card shows record low math and reading test scores among high school seniors in two decades.

Test-optional college admission was trending even before the pandemic disrupted in-person standardized testing and made it difficult for all students to take the SAT and ACT. Since then, fewer ...

Amid the heated debates over testing, “grading for equity,” and test-optional college admissions, it’s easy to throw up one’s hands in exasperation. That’s what makes a new book by Ethan Hutt and Jack ...

TALLAHASSEE (NSF) – The Florida Board of Education voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to back Commissioner Pam Stewart on proposals about test scores and school grades, turning aside concerns from ...

As pressure mounts on colleges to document what their students learn, it remains tough to judge from outside the classroom how much knowledge they gain from their academic experience. The traditional ...

More harm than good comes from issuing school grades. They brand schools, they pit schools against each other, they mar a school’s reputation in the community based on limited information, and they ...