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Federal education officials on Friday approved California's plan to roll out new computer-based standardized tests this spring, ending a months-long dispute that put the state at risk of sacrificing $1.5 billion in federal school funding.

Federal education officials have approved California's plan to make way for a massive rollout of new standardized tests this spring by doing away with the assessments the state's public school students have taken in reading, math and social science since 1999.

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Is there any more potent political issue in North Carolina than education? Probably not.

For some time now , teachers, parents, and students have spoken out against the extraordinary emphasis on standardized testing that has become the bedrock of the nation's education policies.

Yes, the following commentary will be most decidedly my opinion. First, something about my background in education, especially higher education.

If an expansion of a Florida program that helps low-income children attend private schools, many of them religious, gets a thumbs up, it could mean some restrictions on eligibility could be removed.

A split North Carolina State Board of Education has agreed to change how students will be labeled based on standardized test scores in a move which means more students will be considered proficient in skills and courses.

The College Board has announced major changes to the SAT, including making the essay optional, and no longer penalizing wrong answers.

A massive crowed showed up at the gold dome to debate a bill on the future of the SAT exams in Georgia and the Common Core.

Stop clowning around with education. That is the message a group of Baltimore City Public School teachers are trying to send and they're willing to get a little silly to get your attention.

The group that runs the SAT college-entrance test is shaking up its format, scoring and potentially the $1 billion test-preparation industry that has grown up around it.

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Creators of the SAT exam unveiled plans Wednesday to make the test more rigorous in the face of stagnant national scores, aiming to challenge students to provide more analysis.

Changes in the annual test that millions of students take will also do away with some vocabulary words such as "prevaricator" and "sagacious" in favor of words more commonly used in school and on the job.

A proposal to shift students from Southeast Elementary School to another spot in Howell Public Schools remained in doubt Tuesday after a Board of Education study session centering on long-range enrollment trends.

A plan to simplify Florida school grades is making its way through the Legislature.

The SAT college entrance exam taken last year by 1.6 million students is getting its first upgrade since 2005.

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