Next year marks the 10-year anniversary of the Common Core State Standards; the Next Generation Science Standards have been around nearly as long. The majority of states have officially adopted one or ...

Washington, D.C. – The transition to the Common Core State Standards offers an important opportunity to replace America’s flawed and misaligned assessment system with better and fairer tests, ...

For four years, schools in nearly every state have been working to put the Common Core State Standards into practice in classrooms, but few have put them to the test—literally. This year, that changes ...

Washington, D.C. — With the debate over standardized testing reaching a fever pitch, a new report from the Center for American Progress finds a culture of testing and test preparation across many ...

The debate over the Common Core State Standards Initiative has rocketed to the forefront of education policy discussions around the country. More than 3,000 stories were written about the common core ...

OpenEd's assessment creation tool also allows teachers to associate resources to individual questions. Should a student miss a question on an assessment, OpenEd automatically recommends resources such ...

BISMARCK – After lengthy and passionate debate, House lawmakers Wednesday narrowly defeated a bill that would have forced North Dakota to withdraw from the consortium that develops assessments for the ...

Forty-five states and the District of Columbia have adopted the Common Core State Standards, promising full implementation by the 2014-15 school year. While most of the discussion about the Common ...

A California judge’s decision on Tuesday to throw out some of that state’s teacher tenure and seniority laws seemed to overshadow another piece of interesting news: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ...

The backlash against teaching-to-the-test and trying to ace one all-important annual school assessment in recent years has led to some good results. In California, they include general acceptance of ...