An amendment to a House bill that would expand a controversial school voucher program in Tennessee also proposes sweeping changes to standardized testing requirements for public school students. The ...

Here comes another standardized testing season with all the administrator anxiety, teacher turmoil and student disaffection. So much of it that, at least in high schools, those mass assessments do as ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark C. Perna is a generational expert who covers education & careers. Every year, teachers and students across America brace for ...

With many students returning to school in September, educators are preparing their classes for the new year and getting ready for the standardized testing that takes place annually. These standardized ...

Standardized tests should be used as “a flashlight” on what works in education not as “a hammer” to force outcomes, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said during a speech last week. The statement ...

Before the pandemic, there were already about 1,000 four-year colleges that were test-optional. And almost overnight, all American colleges became test-optional. But over the last few years, ...

As fall arrives, the virulence of the culture wars keeps battering K-12 classrooms and obscuring a more fundamental sickness in our education system, one I am reminded of as Georgia's Fulton County ...

After making standardized tests optional for admissions during the pandemic, elite universities like Dartmouth, MIT, Yale and, most recently, Brown have recognized ...

Standardized tests are simply thermometers. Yet they’ve been abandoned by many. In his book Measuring Up, Daniel Koretz reminds readers that the reason we call something a “standardized test” is ...

The US Supreme Court will soon rule on whether to end Affirmative Action, prompting many schools to ease -- or even end -- standardized testing requirements in order to boost diversity. Corbis via ...