Standardized Testing News

Colorado education officials have agreed to audit a Pueblo-based network of charter schools amid allegations of cheating on standardized tests and questions about salaries paid to top administrators.

Chicago's public schools have made little progress in raising student achievement during the last several years, according to a new nonprofit report.

New Jersey education officials say more school districts are meeting requirements under federal school laws.

Columbia, MO - infoZine - When students are underachieving, school policymakers often examine class size, curriculum and funding, but University of Missouri researchers suggest establishing relationships may be a powerful and less expensive way to improve students' success.

Arizona's growing deficit will have an impact on education, but compared with other state services, education fares well, Tom Horne, Arizona school superintendent, assured a Yuma audience Thursday.

June 29 -- Juniors at Mobile County high schools will not get to take the ACT for free.

June 29, 8:05 AM Comment RSS Usually I write about stuff that's happening to me in France or that I observe over here that I think might interest people.

Rap is and always will be a passion for Darryl McDaniels. Likewise, he says, is education.

The ABC has an item on Hudson recruiting's latest survey: The survey by recruitment firm Hudson shows employer confidence has risen for the first time in more than a year and is now 11.5 per cent above the national average.

Though such statistics are not universally kept, some local school districts can count on one hand the number of high school graduates going on to four-year colleges.

Attorney General Tom Corbett announced that agents from the Attorney General's Bureau of Criminal Investigation have filed criminal charges against a Huntingdon County woman accused of using her position as a high school secretary to alter grades and test scores in order to enhance her daughter's class standing.

Strip searched schoolgirl: 'I never questioned authority' June 26: Savana Redding, who was strip-searched when she was 13-years-old by school officials looking for pills, talks about the ordeal that ended Thursday with the Supreme Court ruling that the school had violated the Constitution.

CINCINNATI -- As Ohio's top politicians inch closer to a deal on a two-year budget package worth more than $50 billion, they face a smorgasbord of unresolved arguments about how schools throughout the Buckeye State would work.

A high school secretary illegally changed grades in a school computer system to improve her daughter's class standing, according to criminal charges filed Thursday.Caroline Maria McNeal of Huntingdon is accused of using the passwords of three co-workers without their knowledge to tamper with dozens of grades and test scores between May 2006 and ...

Twin sisters, Zang Jiahuan and Zang Jiale, wear matching shirts and received matching scores on the national college exams this year.

Human resource development minister Kapil Sibal has promised action within 100 days on the Yash Pal committee's recommendations of sweeping changes in managing higher education.

An investigation by the Glynn County school district has confirmed "test improprieties" at an elementary school that is part of a statewide probe into allegations of cheating on standardized tests.

This is 18-year-old Han Yuheng''s longest and most relaxing summer - no homework, no extra classes to prepare for the college entrance exam and nearly three months to kill before heading off to college.

Students and colleges asked lawmakers on Tuesday to hold off on proposed cuts to Michigan's main state-funded college scholarship, saying the cuts threaten aid to 96,000 students this fall.

UPDATE 6/17: The DeKalb District Attorney's Office is looking into allegations of cheating on the CRCT.