My colleague Catherine Gewertz blogged today that the U.S. Department of Education is giving $67 million to groups of states that will create Common Core assessments aimed at students who have severe ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This article was originally published in Chalkbeat. Before starting at his Harlem high school, Jeurry always assumed he was ...

The Department of Education has issued final regulations clarifying how to test students with the most severe cognitive disabilities and include those results in schools’ performance ratings. “Title I ...

Fairfax County Public Schools Superintendent Jack Dale referred to my Sept. 22 column on inflated tests scores as “inaccurate” and “unsubstantiated” in his Sept. 27 letter to the editor (“Column on ...

Did you know that a 5th grade teacher is expected to guide students to mastery of 200 standards each year? Given a typical school year of 180 days, that’s 1.1 standards a day! Of course, standards don ...

Chris Domaleski, a senior associate at the National Center for Improvement of Educational Assessment, agrees that it is typical to use more items on a field test than are planned for a fully ...

Some of the examples reviewed here are also mentioned in our resources on authentic assessments and alternative grading methods. In those contexts, the assignments are embedded in an assessment method ...

The Secondary Principals Association says some members want a temporary alternative to online NCEA literacy and numeracy tests to become permanent. In poor communities, about 60 percent of students ...