Online assessments are a key part of the Common Core State Standards, but these new assessments don't come without obstacles. Adequate high-speed internet access, infrastructure, computers, funding, and…
As states and districts have worked tirelessly to implement teacher effectiveness initiatives, largely driven by new and more rigorous teacher evaluation systems, the topic of principal evaluation has…
Common Core online assessments are scheduled to begin in districts across the country for Spring 2014-15. However, many districts are still struggling to implement these online assessments, thanks…
OpenEd has added more than 300,000 learning assessments to its catalog of 750,000 free, standard-aligned educational videos and games. The move enables teachers to search by keyword or…
A new report is shedding light on what the nation might not know but teachers have known for a while: Time spent on testing depends on district requirements…
Eleven-year-old Ethan Rediske has been in hospice care for the past month and is likely nearing the last days of his life, the Huffington Post reports.
Teachers in 18 states and the District of Columbia have new resources to help them prepare their students for online Common Core testing: The Partnership for Assessment of…
The first sign that something was wrong appeared more than two years ago when a company grading student tests from Philadelphia noticed that erasures from wrong to right…
The state of Ohio is taking steps to ensure that students enter college and the workforce with the ability to apply critical skills to real-world problems. Through the…
Anna Allanbrook, the principal of the Brooklyn New School, a public elementary school in Carroll Gardens, has long considered the period of standardized testing that arrives every spring…
According to new results released today from a report that measures student achievement progress in math and reading in U.S. urban school districts, two districts are at the…
Last month, I asked whether parents and grandparents were worried about threats to annual testing caused by the national switch to the Common Core standards, the Washington Post…
Imagine this ‘unicorn’ scenario in education: You take an entire subject--one whose mastery could push the country to the forefront of innovation--and spend years doing nothing but perfecting…
U.S. students lagged behind their international counterparts in reading, math, and science, and students' performance remained flat as other countries' students improved, according to much-anticipated data from the…