Each year, America spends roughly $2 billion on standardized achievement tests at the national and state levels. Credit: John Locher/Associated Press The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education.

Despite increased investments in talent and learning development (L&D), most organizations struggle to provide the metrics that CEOs and business leaders care about most: impact and return on ...

For online training instructors, creating meaningful performance assessments for online training is a critical issue. Nowadays, most online training instructors like to evaluate what learners learnt ...

Anderson is a journalist, author and speaker. She spent 20 years covering finance including 10 at the New York Times before shifting her focus to learning. She is currently working on a book about the ...

LAUSD test scores improved more than statewide results, but academic achievement is falling short of internal goals. Should ...

Josh Bersin wrote in the Harvard Business Review that “The single biggest driver of business impact is the strength of an organization’s learning culture.” Of course, almost every learning and ...

Standardized testing—including state assessments for accountability purposes—is an annual reality in K-12 schools. But more than half of educators—nearly 60 percent—don’t believe that state ...

The role of what is known as “gifted and talented” programs in public K-12 education has long been debated in contentious conversations on how schools determine their most advanced students and ...

Politicians used to care how much students learn. Now, to find a defense of educational excellence, we have to look beyond politics. Credit...Photo illustration by Alex Merto Supported by By Dana ...