With a new federal law, the nation’s education landscape is getting an overhaul and advocates say they expect the changes are a step in the right direction for students with disabilities. President ...

Standardized testing is at the heart of most issues regarding education and is a billion-dollar industry. The main benefit of testing is providing an efficient way to rank and sort students, but there ...

As the end of the 2020-21 school year approaches, the debate about educational assessments is gaining renewed momentum. While educators and policymakers may hold differing views about how to proceed ...

Testing has become the end-all, be-all of the public education reform movement. The idea seems quite sensible, that holding students (and teachers) to certain objective standards incentivizes both of ...

The Times Union's criticism of the movement among parents to opt-out their children out of tests ("Testing opt-out a mistake," March 30) misses the mark on the real mistake in public education: the ...

Imagine that you’re in charge of civics instruction in your state or district. You want to figure out whether this new approach you’re taking—emphasizing not just knowing civics facts, but living a ...

International large-scale education assessments, known as ILSAs, are widely used to compare the performance of countries' educational systems; however, a media-driven focus on country rankings can be ...

There are several opportunities students have to show competency in reading, writing, and math, to meet state licensure requirements. Have a Composite ACT score of 21 or higher; Have a Combined SAT ...

Teachers must be able to combine several important kinds of knowledge in order to successfully implement classroom science instruction for concept learning. These include knowledge of science content, ...

He also turned two Manhattan districts into national models. But his tangled personal finances forced him to resign as the city’s first Hispanic schools chief. By Sam Roberts Graduate school ...