Rooks is the chair of the Africana Studies department at Brown University. She is the author of six books including Integrated: How American Schools Failed Black Children. Do standardized achievement ...

This tension intersects with another complex policy issue: disproportionality. Federal law flags schools if students from a ...

In our experiences, principals can create a data-informed culture that improves teaching and learning throughout the year by ...

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.

Every year, millions of high schoolers prepare for the arduous process of college admissions. Most will take either the SAT or the ACT, multihour examinations that can feel like the climax of an epic ...

The University of Texas at Austin announced Monday it would reinstate its standardized testing requirement for admissions after test-optional students’ academic achievement suffered. UT Austin became ...

Standardized testing has long been a contentious topic in the field of education. While the primary goal of standardized testing is to measure student achievement and set benchmarks for educational ...

Nearly 200 schools in Georgia have been implicated in what could be the largest standardized testing scandal in American history. Georgia’s Office of Student Achievement in February ordered school ...

What is the most compelling theme in a college application essay? Overcoming adversity. It is not enough for an applicant to say they have experienced adversity. To be persuasive, the applicant must ...

Though Mountain View Whisman students performed slightly better overall on standardized tests last school year, scores ...