KENNEWICK -- This school year's testing season isn't just nerve-wracking for students -- drastic changes to state math exams also are puzzling school district officials, parents and legislators.

Nationwide scores plummeted in math and fell significantly in reading in 2022 on the National Assessment of Educational Progress or NAEP, providing new evidence of the pandemic’s unparalleled impact ...

Some math experts are worried the computer-based testing platforms that PARCC and Smarter Balanced plan to use for common-core tests this spring will make it tough for students to show what they know, ...

Certain middle school students taking advanced math classes can celebrate limited relief from standardized testing following new rules from state Education Commissioner Michael Williams. The Houston ...

SEATTLE – Thousands of high school students in Washington’s class of 2013 don’t know yet if they will get a diploma later this spring because they have not yet met the state’s newest graduation ...

ALBANY – A second round of state testing will begin Wednesday in New York public schools as a movement to refuse the exams in protest continues to gain momentum. Students in grades 3-8 will sit ...

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Philadelphia students are performing the best they have in math in years, showing steady improvement since the pandemic.

Nearly 68,000 elementary and middle school students in 95 districts across Long Island refused to take the state math test this week — 47.9 percent of students eligible in those systems to sit for the ...