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 ...

A decade after Connecticut switched to the Smarter Balanced Assessment to measure academic performance, the debate about “over testing,” student anxiety, costs and “teaching to the test” continues.

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 ...

DANBURY — More than two-thirds of city students tested not proficient in math and English language arts for the 2023-2024 school year, statewide testing data shows. State Smarter Balanced assessment ...

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 ...

New data indicates that K-12 students in Washington state are accelerating in math recovery. In Pierce County, nearly every school district is following that trend. On Friday, the Office of the ...

The specter of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to loom over Vermont students, as evidenced by the state's recent release of scores on statewide tests from 2022. The year saw very few gains in ...

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 ...

EdSource · Los Angeles parents fight for and win intensive tutoring for kids hurt by Covid Clarity matters when explaining to parents how their children did on standardized tests. An imprecise ...