BOSTON (CBS) - Starting next week, more than half of all elementary and middle school students in Massachusetts will begin taking the new PARCC test. This is a pilot program as officials decide if the ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The Ohio Department of Education has agreed to give school districts more time -- up to 5 days -- to complete the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers ...

A new round of standardized testing starts Wednesday in the state. But there's a growing number of parents who are fed up and having their children refuse to take the PARCC test. Mindi Rhoades and her ...

As educators and families grapple with interpreting the new PARCC test results that started to be rolled out this week, the stakes for some students could be real and immediate. Only about a third of ...

CHICAGO (AP) --The Illinois Board of Education says it is switching to a new standardized test this month for third through eighth graders across the state. The Chicago Tribune reports that the ...

WEBVTT AND TEACHER EVALUATION SYSTEMS. DESPITE THE BOARD MEETING CANCELLATION ... THE DISTRICT SAYS IT STILL PLANS TO GO AHEAD WITH THE TESTING. ACTION 7 NEWS REPORTER SANDRA RAMIREZ CHECKED IF LOCAL ...

To the editor: I have been a Language Arts and social studies teacher, coach and administrator in public, private and corporate schools since 1972. New ideas for passing the collected knowledge from ...

Across the nation’s history, and the history of New Jersey, often it has been our court system that has risen to the occasion, spoken most loudly and clearly on complex issues, and about justice and ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this article mischaracterized how the Council of Chief State School Officers came to possess PARCC test questions. Before it disbanded, the PARCC consortium ...

On her third day as governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham announced that New Mexico will drop the oft-maligned PARCC exam after the current school year -- if not sooner. In its place, a new state-specific ...