Standardized Testing News

The state on Friday released its annual list of K-12 school rankings based on student performance on standardized tests, revealing little in the way of surprise for the South Bay and Harbor Area, where nearly 60 percent of the schools surpassed the statewide average.

More than 6,600 Fairfax County students had their statewide Standards of Learning standardized tests rescheduled after an Internet outage on Thursday.

In this week's issue of The City Paper , Andrea Zelinski looks at the issue of student attrition and finds Metro schools officials and charter schools advocates doing different math to quantify the problem.

The theme of Friday morning's breakfast was "It's a Small World After All," focusing on how schools can prepare for the global marketplace.

The Community Action Center has received a College Ready grant for $126,345 from the Great Lakes Higher Education Guaranty Corporation to support the TORCH project.

ACT Minister for Education and training Joy Burch today joined Warehouse Circus to launch the new 'Circus Space' at University of Canberra High School Kaleen.

Amid complaints of disruption and angst in the classrooms, the state's major teachers union launched a petition drive asking parents to protest the use of a new set of standardized tests.

The scores that the State of Tennessee send home with kids for parents for TCAPs are vastly different from the scores they give teachers and schools.

BATON ROUGE, La. - A tea party-backed attempt to keep Louisiana from using a set of uniform national standards for public school testing will be considered by the state Senate.

Earlier this year, Maine faced a bill that would allow public schools to offer single-gender classrooms.

Rebekah Brockman and Jack Cutmore-Scott in A.C.T.is production of Tom Stoppardis Arcadia, directed by Carey Perloff.

DODEA operates schools overseas and at some U.S. locations for the children of military families.

Fort Wayne Community Schools has refused to accept results - good or bad - from this year's ISTEP+ exam and is calling on lawmakers to re-evaluate the state's system of accountability centered on test scores.

One Ridgewood parent's two sons won't be stressing out about standardized tests this week.

Rock County Christian students take the Explore and PLAN tests, which are part of the ACT suite of tests, intended to show students' readiness for college work.

Grief counselors were called into a Broward High School on Wednesday after a 17-year star soccer player with a bright future took her own life.

St. Tammany Parish School Superintendent Trey Folse reads Have your filled a bucket today to school children at Cypress Cove Elementary School Tuesday October 9, 2012.

Even though Chelesa Fearce was homeless for most of her high school years, the young dynamo will still manage to graduate high school with honors on Thursday as its star student and the class valedictorian, reports WSBTV .

State education officials say the number of Louisiana public school students performing at grade level nudged up from 68 percent to 69 percent in the latest round of standardized test scores.

Twelve Saint James seventh-graders were recognized by the Duke University Talent Identification Program in 2012-13, for their excellent academic performance on the ACT and SAT, both universally accepted college entrance exams.