Education Dept. offers more time to reach goals
States can ask for another year before being required to use student test results to decide whether to keep or fire teachers, Education Secretary Arne ...
Senate introduces No Child Left Behind successor
The one-sized-fits-all national requirements of No Child Left Behind would give way to standards that states write for themselves under legislation ...
Greece uses emergency power on striking teachers
The Greek government said Monday it will use emergency powers to prevent protesting teachers from disrupting university entrance exams this month.
ACT to start giving tests digitally
Goodbye, No. 2 pencils. Hello, iPads. Starting as early as spring 2015, the ACT college admissions exam will go digital, reflecting students' tech ...
Computer glitches derail school tests in 4 states
School districts across several states are rescheduling high-stakes tests that judge student proficiency and even determine teachers' pay because of ...
Teachers head: Don't link tests to evaluations yet
The head of the country's second-largest teachers union said Tuesday governments should hold off on linking standardized test results with evaluations ...
Therapy dogs help Mont. students with test stress
At Montana State University, final exams stress is going to the dogs. The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reports (http://bit.ly/11pDoHV ) Intermountain ...
30 years later, nation remains at educational risk
U.S. students are falling behind their international rivals. Young people aren't adept at new technology. America's economy will suffer if schools ...
Atlanta schools work to help kids left behind
Long after the school day ends, nearly half the students enrolled at Burgess-Peterson Academy in Atlanta spend an extra four hours in class looking ...
Some states dropping GED as test price spikes
Several dozen states are looking for an alternative to the GED high school equivalency test because of concerns that a new version coming out next ...
Mexican president faces teachers' revolt
Easter vacation was over, but there wasn't a teacher in sight at the boarding school for indigenous children on the edge of this sunbaked southern ...
5 Norwegian schools shift exams for Bieber concert
Five schools in western Norway have rescheduled their midterm exams to allow students to attend upcoming Justin Bieber concerts in the capital, the ...
3 dozen indicted in Atlanta cheating scandal
Juwanna Guffie was sitting in her fifth-grade classroom taking a standardized test when, authorities say, the teacher came around offering information ...
Judge again orders stop to Mo. college drug tests
A federal judge on Friday again blocked efforts by a central Missouri technical college to drug-test its students, a policy challenged as ...
After decade of criticism, student grouping rises
Teachers say they are grouping students of similar abilities with each other inside classrooms and schools are clustering pupils with like interests ...
Titles don't much matter for high school math
Advanced or intermediate algebra? Honors or basic geometry? When it comes to high school math, the labels may not really matter — or necessarily ...
At more colleges, classes on genetics get personal
Bakir Hajdarevic didn't have to study for the most important test in a class last fall. He just had to spit — a lot. The 19-year-old freshman at the ...
More states push retention of struggling readers
Flunked, retained, held back. Whatever you call it, increasing numbers of states are not promoting students who are struggling to read at the end of ...
Harvard: Dozens disciplined over exam cheating
Harvard University said Friday it issued academic sanctions against approximately 60 students who were forced to withdraw from school for a period of ...
Educator pleads guilty in teacher testing fraud
A longtime Memphis educator accused of leading a 15-year scheme to help teachers cheat on qualification exams changed his plea to guilty on Friday, ...
China's young in crisis of declining fitness
Xiao Ru spent her last year of high school studying from morning until late at night. That didn't help her complete one particular assignment in her ...
NYC, union trade harsh words over plan impasse
The city and its teachers' union can't agree on how to evaluate the educators, an impasse that has put the nation's largest school district at risk ...
NYC, union miss deadline for teacher eval plan
New York City and a union representing the city's 75,000 teachers missed a deadline Thursday for a teacher evaluation plan, putting the city at risk ...
Dartmouth College ending Advanced Placement credit
High school students hoping to earn college credits through Advanced Placement exams soon will be out of luck at Dartmouth College, which has ...
Will longer school year help or hurt US students?
Did your kids moan that winter break was way too short as you got them ready for the first day back in school? They might get their wish of more ...
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