Some 4th and 12th grade tests won't proceed as planned, following sweeping cuts to the U.S. Department of Education research ...

President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order Wednesday to establish a comprehensive national framework to prepare ...

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We should replace disparate state tests with a single national assessment for all fourth and eighth graders annually.

The Nation's Report Card shows math achievement scores are still low. It's time to take action to ensure all students can ...

Producing something this stupid is not the work of a day; it is the achievement of a lifetime — relying on decades of ...

Thirty percent of Illinoisan fourth graders were reading at or above a proficient level last year, according to the results ...

Without a strong ‘federal backstop,’ some experts argue it will be harder to keep states honest and protect the neediest ...

Government can do next to nothing about these. The National Assessment of Educational Progress (the “nation’s report card”) shows that fourth- and eighth-grade reading scores are where they ...

We currently lack informative data on the quality of our public schools for all students and the number who lack access to ...