MANCHESTER — The number of students whose parents have refused to let them take the Smarter Balanced assessment test has swelled to more than 500 since the district began administering the exam ...

More than a million students across the country have traded their No. 2 pencils, test booklets, and bubble sheets for computing devices to participate in a pilot of math and English/language arts ...

For the second year in a row, most Los Angeles Unified students — with the exception of 11th graders — won’t be taking the Smarter Balanced standardized test that’s usually mandated by the state each ...

Although Wisconsin students won't be taking the new Smarter Balanced Assessment exams until spring of 2015, area districts have already been preparing for them by doing practice tests. For more ...

California’s students’ Smarter Balanced test scores rose marginally in 2018-19, the fifth year of the tests, while showing little to no progress in closing wide disparities among ethnic, racial and ...

State education officials say it will be six weeks before the public gets to see the results of the first-ever Smarter Balanced tests, the statewide standardized test that nearly all New Hampshire ...

Changing its earlier position, the California Department of Education will release Smarter Balanced test scores next month and not wait to incorporate them into other data as planned, a department ...

For the second year in a row, most Los Angeles Unified students — with the exception of 11th graders — won’t be taking the Smarter Balanced standardized test that’s usually mandated by the state each ...