ACT, SAT essays under the red pencil
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Iowa City  Meredith Brand can&#39;t say much about what&#39;s going on behind closed doors here at ACT Inc. headquarters: Her work deals with the closely guarded essay questions being developed for the testing company&#39;s ...
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Unreliable test scores and other shaky data may be causing states to wrongly penalize some schools under federal law, congressional investigators have found.
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Software sends SAT prep questions to your child's handset--and lets you check to see whether they're getting the answers right.
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In the five years since a federal law mandated an expansion of reading and math tests, 44 percent of school districts nationwide have made deep cutbacks in social studies, science, art and music lessons in elementary grades and have even slashed lunchtime, a new survey has found.
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By Jan Hefler, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Mar. 1--It started as a practical joke and a test to see if he could change his friends' computerized grades at Cherry Hill High School East and escape detection.
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College test anxiety: The new SAT college admissions exam has more high school students seeking test-prep help. B1. Mesa police changes: Nearly a year after four officer-involved shootings, the department has
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The contentious debate over paid admission at t
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by JIM ELLIS ORLANDO, Fla. - Middle school teacher Julia Austin is noticing a new generation of errors creeping into her pupils' essays.
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The test-prep service turns in a disappointing quarter.
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The report on the failures in this year's English tests is highly critical.
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Now that you know how you scored, you probably want to know why. Check out the answers below for the gory details. And be sure to return next week for another news quiz, ripped straight from the tech headlines.
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Large percentages of high school seniors are posting weak scores on national math and reading tests even though more of them are taking challenging courses and getting higher grades in school, say two new government reports released Thursday.
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A federal program to teach reading pressured schools to adopt a specific approach in order to receive funding.
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LONG BEACH, N.Y. - Of 1.4 million high-schoolers who took the Scholastic Aptitude Test in 2004, fewer than 1,000 scored a perfect 1600.
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By Michael Alison Chandler, Washington Post Staff Writer  Eleventh-grader Farhiya Hosh had her textbook open yesterday to Section Four, displaying a picture of 19th-century politician John C. Calhoun, in preparation for a test.
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Researchers claim that teaching formal grammar is not the best way to teach writing.
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The Department of Education is showing new leniency on Bush's tough school standards. But the tests aren't going away