In recent years, I have begun each semester by asking my first-year composition students two questions, one theoretical and the other practical. First, the theoretical question: What is the purpose of ...

In the American school system, standardized tests are so much a fixture of education that most of us do not even question their existence. For most of us, these tests are just a reality of going ...

This story originally appeared on xoJane.com. What I’m about to say might make me the most unpopular teacher in the lounge. Standardized testing actually isn’t ...

This summer, New York City schools are preparing for a shift in reading instruction, and recent reports indicate that it’s not just for lower grades, but for high schools as well. One shift in ...

Is standardized testing dead? Or, to paraphrase Mark Twain, are the reports “greatly exaggerated”? In March 2020, about 1,000 of the 2,300 private nonprofit and public bachelor's-granting colleges and ...

In a recent tweet, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, asserted: "Standardized testing doesn't help kids learn, and it doesn't help teachers teach." Instead, she argued ...

If you had wandered late last year into Matthew Tosiello’s third-grade science class at Abingdon Elementary School in Virginia, you would have encountered an army of frogs. Origami frogs, that is–palm ...