Last year, Massachusetts residents voted in a statewide referendum to end the use of high-stakes tests as a graduation ...

State education officials will streamline the state’s writing-assessment test. The State Board of Education, following a recommendation from Michael Flanagan, state superintendent, announced recently ...

SALEM — Oregon students taking a state writing assessment test will be allowed to use a computer spell checker this year. KTVZ-TV in Bend reported that, beginning with the new school year, the Oregon ...

MISSOULA — Which is the greater sin in writing: wandering away from the point of an argument, or forgetting that the word "won't" needs an apostrophe? When you've got a pile of 7,200 student essays ...

Soldiers from the 302nd Maneuver Enhancement Brigade and its downtrace units complete a written examination March 23, 2014, at Fort Devens, Mass. The exam was part of the MEB's best warrior ...

Fourth- and seventh-graders in the Aspen School District scored well above statewide averages in the Colorado State Assessment Program reading and writing tests, administered in March 1999. Fourth- ...

SALEM (AP) -- Oregon students taking a state writing assessment test will be allowed to use a computer spell checker this year. KTVZ-TV in Bend reports that, beginning with the new school year, the ...

Elementary, middle and high school students may want to start petitioning for an 8 a.m. standardized test-taking time. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published a study on Feb. 16 ...