Achievement tests are necessary for evaluating student mastery and growth. Yet achievement data as the sole determinant of student success can unintentionally leave some children behind. As a former ...

Students who score the highest on national tests have been making academic strides over the past decade while those who score at the bottom are struggling more and more. Scores were more likely to ...

What’s the gap in performance between two runners at the end of a marathon? The answer can be expressed in minutes, or more likely fractions of seconds, to the finish line. But how do you describe the ...

Each year, America spends roughly $2 billion on standardized achievement tests at the national and state levels. Credit: John Locher/Associated Press The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education.

While presenting his budget before a joint session of Congress on February 27, President George W. Bush declared that "[m]easuring is the only way to know whether all our children are learning." ...

Maya Angelou once said, “Do the best you can until you know better. Then, when you know better, do better.” It is time for us to do better! As an organization that grounds its work in the potential of ...

Colorado state officials on Thursday morning released the results of spring 2023 K-12 achievement tests and the results are mixed -- suggesting that where students were developmentally when their ...

School districts have historically relied on a referral-based process to identify students for gifted and talented programming. This means that teachers or parents nominate their students to take ...

Recently I've written a fair amount about early-childhood education and vocational education, both of which, so to speak, are having a moment. The former is being pushed, in various forms, by Barack ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In the early 1930s, The World Book ...