Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vermont students will be taking a different standardized test this spring. Students will no longer take the Smarter Balanced ...

SEATTLE -- The teachers and parents gathered in the Seattle NAACP office Tuesday afternoon represent the growing "Opt-Out" movement against the new state required standardized test - a test that the ...

As officials scramble to raise New Haven students’ low state test scores, some teachers are calling for more support and questioning whether the exams are the best measure of student success. Teachers ...

Last year the Fairfield Public Schools administered the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium field tests. These were intended to measure the Common Core curriculum that had been adopted by the ...

SEATTLE -- Amid the growing number of parents who are having their students "opt out" of the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) tests, at one Seattle elementary school not a single student ...

A state-commissioned investigation has found a “preponderance of evidence” suggesting that a Connecticut principal “intentionally manipulated” student answers on standardized tests, according to a ...

TOWNSHEND — School officials throughout the state are raising alarms related to the implementation of new standardized testing after Cognia replaced Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium. “It is an ...