The National Assessment of Educational Progress measures student performance in math and reading. See how the 50 states shape ...

American middle and high school students are not performing well on assessments, indicating that fewer of them are learning even as much as their peers were just a handful of years ago. Being fair, ...

The state Board of Education is slated to decide on new standardized test score descriptions. There’s debate over the best way to describe students who are not proficient. The newly proposed terms for ...

Corrected: A prior version of this story omitted New York from the list of states that have released preliminary testing data. More than five months after students took their spring state tests, ...

Colleges have fled standardized tests, on the theory that they hurt diversity. That’s not what the research shows. Credit...Photo Illustration by Alex Merto Supported by By David Leonhardt David ...

This week Yale’s office of undergraduate admissions announced a new policy on standardized testing for first-year and transfer applicants. After four years with a test-optional policy that allowed ...

This is the second in a series of two posts, the first of which can be found here. Yesterday I showed that, during the pandemic, changes in achievement gaps for US 15 year olds on Program for ...

On June 23, 1926, about 8,000 high school students across the United States took the first Scholastic Aptitude Test, known today as the SAT. That test looked very different than the one that about 2 ...