On Monday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts released a plan for K-12 education. It is expansive and expensive, calling for hundreds of billions of dollars in funding for impoverished children, ...

It would seem to be an easy matter to determine whether or not a student has completed secondary school, but doing so is complicated by a growing number of alternatives to the traditional path of ...

Twenty years ago, high-stakes testing was enjoying a renaissance as a convenient way for schools to comply with the newly passed federal No Child Left Behind Act. Today, only eight states still make ...

The school year is winding down, but one faction within the world of education is ratcheting up: the anti-testing movement. More parents are pulling their kids out of end-of-year math and literacy ...

Connecticut’s biggest teachers union, the Connecticut Education Association, is increasing its clamor against what it calls “high-stakes” testing of students and against the “Smarter Balanced” test in ...