Aligned to the Common Core State Standards, the forthcoming tests from two nonprofit state assessment consortia—the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium and the Partnership for Assessment of ...

With fewer questions and no time limits, this month’s Common Core tests in English Language Arts and math will still be a challenge for city students. It’s the fourth year of the statewide exams that ...

According to two new reports by the Center on Education Policy at George Washington University, district leaders in states belonging to one of the Common Core assessment consortia appear to be hedging ...

Dina: Let me admit this up front: I can be a professional developer’s nightmare. I am a skeptical, informed, judgmental know-it-all, and can typically be found sitting in the back with my elbows ...

Some Alice Ott Middle School teachers display definitions of Common Core State Standards in their classrooms. Most students will take Smarter Balanced assessments later this year. (Laura Frazier/The ...

We are finishing our English Language Arts (ELA) testing this week. I am so proud of our students and teachers. They have been positive and focused during the testing. We have not had one student opt ...

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has introduced a new collection of grade-specific tablet apps for kindergarten through sixth grade. The Common Core Reading Practice and Assessment apps are available for ...

Diane Ravitch, renowned education historian, policy analyst, research professor, author and blogger, is fond of asking: “What if they threw a test and nobody took it?” New York is about to find out.

As students returned to school over the past week, some of their parents picked up where they left off at the end of the 2013-14 year — fighting to rid classrooms of the Common Core Learning Standards ...

Testing. It has become a dirty word. Last year, between 55,000 and 65,000 families refused to have their children take the New York State Common Core assessments. Those numbers are likely to increase ...