A new policy brief reviews the assessments currently used in 40 states to weigh the skills of their youngest learners and offers advice to policymakers on how to craft their own systems. Authors ...

When right-wing legislators and the state’s teacher’s union agree on something, it’s probably worth sitting up and taking notice. That seems to be the case when it comes to standardized testing of pre ...

Those of us in the news business have been getting pounded with incendiary emails from the Wendy Davis campaign asserting that UPDATE: The Abbott campaign is now trying to cover up his policy ...

Twenty states now use student performance in the early grades to assess teachers, yet current evaluation systems don’t provide an accurate picture of what’s happening in the classroom, asserts a study ...

The Obama administration wants states to develop assessments for pre-schoolers. Here’s how it would work in the classroom. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to ...

Maryland was named one of seven states awarded millions in grant funds from the U.S. Department of Education to develop a new assessment for pre-kindergartners, officials announced Friday. The state, ...

The Mississippi Department of Education has released the results of the kindergarten and pre-K assessments and the news is once again mostly good for Coast schools. The assessments are given twice a ...

The Nation-- With new evidence of standardized test score-inflation and straightforward adult cheating on K-12 tests in Atlanta, Washington, D.C., and across the country, you’d think it would be ...