Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here comes another standardized testing season with all the administrator anxiety, teacher turmoil and student disaffection. So ...

Schooling as we have known it for the past couple of centuries or more has never been a great means of education. It relies on coercion. It is premised on the misguided assumption that everyone can ...

What is the most compelling theme in a college application essay? Overcoming adversity. It is not enough for an applicant to say they have experienced adversity. To be persuasive, the applicant must ...

Harvard University announced Thursday it will return to requiring standardized testing for applications, nearly four years after it decided to make them optional. The elite institution joins a ...

Nearly a year after the MCAS exam requirement was kicked to the curb by voters, the governor’s education council is now proposing a new standard for high school students. The preliminary draft ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — In early March, the University of Texas released a statement announcing the reinstatement of standardized test scores in admissions for Fall 2025 applicants. The announcement ...

Students are showing “positive momentum” on state standardized tests, state education officials said Tuesday, though the results remain below pre-pandemic levels. Commissioner of Education Karla ...

Pennsylvania's 14 cyber charters receive public funds to pay for students' tuition, with the money coming from school districts. All Pennsylvania standardized tests — including the Pennsylvania System ...

It is noteworthy that two of the leading critics of standardized testing in the United States are Yong Zhao, who grew up in China and is now a professor of education at the University of Kansas, and ...