One morning, some 20 years ago, I took an anonymous phone call that stunned me. Years had passed since our decadelong federal class action discrimination lawsuit against the CBEST had ended with only ...

Data from federal standardized test scores points to another startling effect the COVID-19 pandemic had on America's children, with numbers indicating that reading and math scores for 13-year-olds ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- A new state law passed last year requires anyone who wants to be a new teacher in Minnesota to take what's called a basic skills test. But now, some are questioning whether that ...

There’s yet more evidence that students have lost significant ground following the wobbly shift to pandemic-era remote classes that stretched for months: New data show the nation’s 13-year-olds are ...

Half of Pennsylvania’s high school seniors who took the state’s basic math test scored so low that they’re eligible to take it again. Preliminary numbers compiled Thursday show 63,094 students, or 51 ...

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