Standardized Testing News

Listen up parents and students!! Take advantage of this free opportunity to excel on the SAT exam.

Cambridge Who's Who offers an online networking platform where members can establish new business relationships and achieve career advancement within their company, industry or profession.

Since the spring of 2007, Maine has used the SAT as its standardized test for juniors, replacing the Maine Educational Assessment test.

The ACT national exams will be administered at the Pagosa Springs High School, starting Dec.

'I wasn'4 sure i4 was my score,' Chen said. 'I fel4 that I hadn'4 done great on my essay and in the reading section.' Deshpande had a headache and was running a fever the day of the test and didn'4 feel she was a4 her best.

Iowa City, Iowa-Nov. 7, 2009, marks the 50th anniversary of the ACT college admission and placement exam .

Canada needs to follow the lead of other countries in developing cultures of lifelong learning or risk falling behind and failing the challenges that an aging population, skills shortage and other social and economic conditions are bringing, warns a new report.

An ACT preparation workshop will be offered through the Caledonia Resource Center.

Using stimulus dollars as bait, President Barack Obama is coaxing states to rewrite education laws and cut deals with unions as they compete for $5 billion in school reform grants, the most money a president has ever had for overhauling schools.

If you're throwing around the term "app" a lot but it has nothing to do with iPhones, you must have a high school senior in the family working on a college app.

Although a California legal ban has been lifted, the fog enveloping it has not. A law signed earlier this month by Gov.

At home in Katmandu, Nepal, Pankaj Karki researched colleges in the United States.

Most local elementary school districts met the benchmarks overall under the state's version of the federal No Child Left Behind legislation, but even while school officials breathe a sigh of relief, they wonder how many more years that success will last.

Today's letter to the editor from Maureen Garry underlines one of the many problems with our school system, which Gary Goncalves raised during his campaign, and you'll hear more about after the elections.

USC President Steven B. Sample, who dramatically boosted the university's academic prestige, financial resources and civic engagement during nearly 19 years as its leader, says he will step down from the post next summer.

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, October 29, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Sydney: School canteen catering company, Fresh n Fast Group, today celebrated plans to expand its business operations in NSW and the ACT by launching a new healthy summer menu.

Hundreds of Illinois public schools have been placed on academic monitoring for failing to meet performance targets under the federal No Child Left Behind law, even as students perform better on standardized tests, state education officials said.

THE small Duarte Unified School District - about 4,300 students - is surrounded by generally higher-performing districts.

For the first time since the federal No Child Left Behind Act became law, Community Unit School District 95 failed to make satisfactory annual yearly progress to comply with the statute, according to figures released at a recent School Board meeting.

The Multnomah County commissioners never seem short of resolutions to pass and proclamations to make, but today's unanimous vote to support the federal Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act was particularly emotional for both the commissioners and the audience who came to support it.