Each academic year Catholic elementary schools in the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois participate in standardized testing using the Measure of Academic Progress (MAP) test. Testing in Diocesan ...

Three Cape Girardeau students learned recently they received the highest score possible on a state test they took in the spring. Scores on Missouri Assessment Program tests are of the utmost ...

Four decades ago at the Jolly Roger restaurant in Chehalis, a group of school administrators dreamed up the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP), the set of exams that is now under attack in Seattle.

As teachers have voiced in this forum, policies surrounding the number of assessments and the quality of assessments being used in schools need a serious makeover. In a recent article NEA Today, ...

Each year, we take a look at Curriculum Matters’ most-read blog posts, and in 2015 it seems two major themes got readers clicking: common-core testing and math instruction. And that makes sense. This ...

For students, the start of a new school year can feel like a blank slate, a chance to begin anew. This year, however, Seattle students (along with their parents and teachers) can be forgiven for ...

Sarah Lahm had a “revelation” this spring, courtesy of teachers and other parents at Clara Barton Open School in Minneapolis: She could opt her children out of the state’s standardized tests. Lahm ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Fewer than half of all Jefferson County Public Schools students tested at grade level in reading, while just more than one-third showed grade-level proficiency in math in the ...

Thousands of Houston ISD students will gear up to take their first assessments of 2025 this week, although the tests notably won't impact their grades. State-appointed Superintendent Mike Miles ...