For critics of standardized tests—and there are lots of them—this change is an unmitigated good. If you think standardized tests don’t measure anything important, that they promote economic inequality ...

As California releases standardized test scores, we answer key questions: What is the Common Core, how are students being tested, and what do the results mean?

Creativity, special needs, knowledge, thoughtfulness, and being Black can all undermine students' scores on standardized tests. College admissions decisions need many information sources.

The Obama Administration has a plan to limit the number of standardized tests that children take. NPR's Rachel Martin speaks to correspondent Anya Kamenetz about what changes the efforts might bring.

As schools across Michigan continue to wait for the state to deliver a school funding budget, another debate is being fueled ...

Recently, The Hechinger Report, in project partnership with The Atlantic, surveyed students about the role of education. One student commented about standardized testing: "It's the same with how I ...

Eliminating the current State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) was a bipartisan issue, but finding its replacement split Democrats and Republicans in the Texas House of ...

Applying to Stanford will once again mean having to take the SAT or ACT. The school becomes the latest to reinstate the standardized testing requirement after most colleges dropped it several ...