SEATTLE -- Amid the growing number of parents who are having their students "opt out" of the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) tests, at one Seattle elementary school not a single student ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vermont students will be taking a different standardized test this spring. Students will no longer take the Smarter Balanced ...

Darien school administrators are rapidly working to revise the Smarter Balanced testing schedule following a conference call with Commissioner of Education Stefan Pryor this morning. The testing dates ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Members of the West Yellowstone School District board gathered Wednesday evening for the regular ...

SEATTLE -- The teachers and parents gathered in the Seattle NAACP office Tuesday afternoon represent the growing "Opt-Out" movement against the new state required standardized test - a test that the ...

A state-commissioned investigation has found a “preponderance of evidence” suggesting that a Connecticut principal “intentionally manipulated” student answers on standardized tests, according to a ...

SOONER THIS DATA IS RELEASED, THE BETTER. WE’VE BEEN WORKING REALLY HARD TO GET IT OUT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. LEADERS WITH THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION PROMISING TO PUSH OUT KEY SCHOOL TESTING ...

Roughly 220 students at Garfield High School have opted out of taking a new standardized test called the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, part of federal Common Core curriculum and testing ...

A problem with the state’s testing provider has again delayed the Smarter Balanced exams just as the window to administer the new computer-based exams was scheduled to open Wednesday. The indefinite ...

In a significant departure, the California Department of Education is withholding the release of the results of the Smarter Balanced tests that students took last spring until an undetermined date ...