Every exam season, this phrase can be singularly responsible for hope, despair, dread or celebration among test takers in India. Test taking is serious business, and much like weddings, it is a matter ...

Is high-stakes testing as a graduation requirement about to make a comeback in Massachusetts? In a preliminary draft from the co-chairs of a state panel charged with setting new graduation standards, ...

Three separate stories about high stakes testing, computers, servers and data. 1. Evidence indicates that some students who take high stakes tests on computers do worse than similar students who use ...

The education reform movement has made the needs of students at risk for academic failure a key focus. Both nationally and at the state and district levels, many elements of reform have been devised ...

On this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with reflections on the strange and revealing controversy over Donald Trump’s rumored commemorative coin and what it says about ...

Rather than freaking out or cramming during the often stress-filled week before final exams at Aspen High School, a group of theater newcomers are inviting their classmates to laugh at the absurdity ...

On Monday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts released a plan for K-12 education. It is expansive and expensive, calling for hundreds of billions of dollars in funding for impoverished children, ...

I sympathize with David Patten's frustration at no longer being able to be creative in the classroom. Creativity is the spice of life for many people. I changed careers from chemistry and engineering ...

The UK government has committed to reducing the amount of time pupils spend in GCSE exams in England by up to three hours on average. This comes after recommendations to cut exam time were made in an ...

ACROSS THE COUNTRY, students, teachers and education officials are playing a game of chicken with testing regimes. In an effort to raise standards, both federal legislation -- as embodied in the No ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...