School districts worried about how students will perform on end-of-the-year state tests are increasingly administering “benchmark assessments” throughout the year to measure students’ progress and ...

The Alabama Board of Education is set to raise expectations for third graders by gradually increasing a benchmark on the state’s high-stakes reading test. Currently, educators decide whether or not a ...

The Obama administration recently agreed to waive No Child Left Behind requirements for a handful of states. These states say the rising federal benchmark fails to adequately measure student ...

Get the Ed Chat newsletter: Enter your email for weekly updates about Alabama schools from Trisha Powell Crain: According to results from Alabama’s 2023 reading test, 11,662 second graders, or 22% of ...

Each April, all 3rd through 5th graders in my school take the DC-CAS—a standardized, summative assessment of grade-level skills in reading and math. It is a grueling eight-day test paralyzing the ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a troubling impact on the reading skills of school kids in the youngest grades. A series of new studies indicate that roughly one-third of the youngest school kids are ...

A student in Muncie, Ind., receives live virtual tutoring from Reading Futures. Forty percent of fourth graders and 33 percent of eighth graders in the U.S. did not meet benchmarks for basic reading ...

Banks Junior High Principal Shelley Mitchell speaks to seventh graders and new students on the first day of school. (Laura Frazier/The Forest Grove Leader ) The biggest gains in state testing for the ...

Virginia will delay raising its academic benchmarks in reading and math until the following school year — a pause that gives ...