PORTLAND, Ore. (PORTLAND TRIBUNE) — In Portland and in Oregon as a whole, children’s academic achievement on standardized tests is holding steady. Depending on the subject area, between half and ...

This post originally appeared in the Curriculum Matters blog. With states increasingly having walked away from the common-core-aligned tests developed by two federally funded consortia—especially at ...

With states increasingly having walked away from the common-core-aligned tests developed by two federally funded consortia—especially at the high school level—one of those assessment groups is looking ...

BEND, Ore. — Oregon’s new standardized test is a harder test for students and it’s also more difficult for evaluators to score. The Smarter Balanced test measures how students are performing under the ...

At Kraxberger Middle School in Gladstone, P.E. teacher Rob Hill and vice principal Lori Buchanan read through a practice version of the Smarter Balanced test, looking for skills students will need and ...

In this photo taken on Tuesday, March 25, 2013, Common Core standards are posted on a bulletin board in a second grade classroom at George Buck Elementary School in Indianapolis. The Smarter Balanced ...

The state of South Dakota has been administering the Smarter Balanced Assessment since the Spring semester of 2015. Not much has changed since the initial implementation of the tests until this year.

If Eli Luberoff had his way, no student would need to buy handheld graphing calculators. For nearly a decade, the founder and CEO of Desmos has been building a free alternative that works on web ...

Changing its earlier position, the California Department of Education will release Smarter Balanced test scores next month and not wait to incorporate them into other data as planned, a department ...