After a limited testing run last year, area schools report that the statewide ELA testing for third through eighth graders is back to normal this year. ELA, or English Language Arts, testing across ...

Kristi Harlan's daughter Cady is a 6th grader at Youree Drive Middle School. Cady is dyslexic, and every year her mother has an annual review with the school to discuss accommodations needed to help ...

It's a ritual of summer: Parents receive their children's standardized test scores for grades 3 to 8 and have to figure out New York State's mysterious 1-4 scoring scale. Most probably figure out that ...

Disruptions in the state's testing system persisted in schools on Long Island and statewide for the second consecutive day Wednesday, a situation that education officials in Albany called ...