Standardized Testing News

If you're having second thoughts about heading to law school, outline your career goals to decide if it's the right move.

Charleston , Kanawha County , West Virginia The U.S. Department of Education has approved West Virginia's waiver request from the federal education accountability law.

Last week, many members of the Rhode Island business community and many school committees sent letters to Governor Chafee in support of Education Commissioner Gist.

HAVING SHARPENED THEIR #2 PENCILS, my teenage daughters are about to take this spring's battery of standardized tests, leaving me to wonder what these tests mean - about their education, about the culture of college my husband and I are preparing them for, about American values.

In the past few weeks we have heard horror stories from throughout Indiana about testing under ISTEP+ - particularly the overload of the computer system and the failure of the testing company's servers to handle the testing.

Fighting cancer her entire life, Lyndsey Staub hopes to graduate from Dixie Hollins High School in a few days if she can make up her last bit of work.

The state Senate released a $20.58 billion proposed budget late Sunday night that would eliminate class-size limits for the youngest public school students, move the State Bureau of Investigation to a department the governor's appointee controls and puts various environmental programs under the control of a state agency.

That's one of the state-mandated goalposts local schools are seeing approach as the school year wraps up in Cedar Grove and Verona .

The 2013 Pathfinder winners. Front row, left to right, Shanon Scully, Louis Brion, Libby Koolik, Carey MacDonald and Coleen Chan.

Jesse Hagopian , is a high school history teacher and union rep at Garfield High School in Seattle, Washington.

Everyone's got a neat idea for how to fix colleges. There are plans to give every student a laptop.

Parkway Central High junior Zachary Heiman is in some elite company after earning a perfect score on the ACT exam.

HOPE Christian High School has set an excellent example of education that is making a significant difference in the lives of Milwaukee's young men and women.

"Unfunded mandate." Pick two words that New Hampshire taxpayers detest, and "unfunded mandate" would be high on the list.

The SAT subject test in biology scheduled for June in Korea has now also been cancelled over suspicions that test questions were leaked.

I am now sitting in front of 16 young men and women who are being forced to take a test that means little to them.

Michael Schaeffer, who teaches math at Brayton Elementary School in North Adams, says new students definitely change the dynamics of a classroom.

Sharon With a combined SAT score of 1775, Sharon ranks first out of 48 schools south of Boston, according to data released by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education published by the Boston Globe .

Two Tift County High School seniors have been honored as 2013 Georgia Scholars by the Georgia Department of Education.

York City School District Supt. Deborah Wortham, center, talks to William Penn seniors Martin Tolbert and Dustin Solomon about where they plan to apply for college in this October 2011 photo.