Washington, D.C. – The transition to the Common Core State Standards offers an important opportunity to replace America’s flawed and misaligned assessment system with better and fairer tests, ...
As many states begin to implement online assessments to gauge student learning under the Common Core State Standards, administrators are faced with a number of important considerations that accompany ...
Washington, D.C. — With the debate over standardized testing reaching a fever pitch, a new report from the Center for American Progress finds a culture of testing and test preparation across many ...
For four years, schools in nearly every state have been working to put the Common Core State Standards into practice in classrooms, but few have put them to the test—literally. This year, that changes ...
Many states will receive results from assessments aligned with the Common Core State Standards for the first time this fall. These assessments of students' progress, developed by the Smarter Balanced ...
New York public school students will spend less time taking the unpopular Common Core assessments that have been boycotted by large numbers of parents in recent years. Beginning next spring, students ...
BISMARCK – After lengthy and passionate debate, House lawmakers on Wednesday narrowly defeated a bill that would have forced North Dakota to withdraw from the consortium that develops assessments for ...
OpenEd's assessment creation tool also allows teachers to associate resources to individual questions. Should a student miss a question on an assessment, OpenEd automatically recommends resources such ...
Five years after dozens of states adopted the Common Core standards for public education, many are now receiving their first significant assessment results. So, has Common Core passed the test?