Entries for the 'Standards & Assessment' Category

America's educational advantage is quickly eroding, testified one of the world's foremost experts on comparing national school systems before a Senate...

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Mark Schneider writes for Education Week about the discrepancies between some states' reported proficiency rates and their scores as tested by the NAE...

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Future assessments, Stanley N. Rabinowitz writes, will include more flexibility, multiple measures of achievement, different roles for government, and...

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The National Assessment of Educational Progress released its trend analysis of the nation's largest cities; the District of Columbia, Boston and San D...

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Despite the movement for a shared national standards and assessment, experts believe the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) will still...

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Massachusetts educators are applauding a new reporting system for MCAS tests (Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System) that tracks student progr...

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Schools in Illinois are under investigation for "reclassifying" high school juniors, a practice which prevents low-performers from taking the state as...

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A recently released study shows that nearly a third of the states lowered their academic standards to avoid the penalties under the No Child Left Behi...

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New York Times Op-Ed Columnist Nicholas Kirstof argues in favor of greater teacher accountability, and in support of measures that remove ineffective ...

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Steven Brill chronicles the incredible politics of firing New York City teachers deemed incompetent, including two very different views on the essenti...

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