Standardized testing has long been a contentious topic in the field of education. While the primary goal of standardized testing is to measure student achievement and set benchmarks for educational ...

Many would bring up tennis legends Venus and Serena Williams, who learned to play on Compton’s public courts, or the election of Douglas Dollarhide, who, in 1969, became the first Black man to serve ...

“Data-driven” instruction makes sense only if the data that’s driving it makes sense. And much of the data used to guide reading instruction doesn’t. Throughout the school year, classrooms across the ...

Data from federal standardized test scores points to another startling effect the COVID-19 pandemic had on America's children, with numbers indicating that reading and math scores for 13-year-olds ...

Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. When is a reading test not a true reading test? Most of the time. For years, cognitive ...

South Bend third graders have made huge strides in reading proficiency thanks to a partnership between Tutor-ND, South Bend ...

The COVID pandemic hit public education very, very hard. It shut down schools, forcing students and teachers to discover the ins and outs of virtual learning on the fly. It kept kids separated from ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Born in Kansas, Walter Scott Monroe ...

When the College Board canceled SAT testing in 2020, hundreds of colleges adopted test-optional admissions policies for that fall. The Urban Institute reported that the number of four-year colleges ...

More than 40% of grammar school students in the city failed the state’s standardized math and reading texts this year — but officials praised some gains in the results released Monday. More city ...

South Carolina doesn’t get much authentically good news about public education. What passes for celebration-worthy is usually along the lines of "our test scores didn’t drop as much as the national ...