The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium has selected a developer for its online, open source solution for reporting results from student assessments. Smarter Balanced is working to develop a system ...

Beginning this month, Hawaii public school students in grades 3-8 and 11 will start taking a new state assessment that better informs educators on each child’s progress toward being ready for college ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Beginning this month, Hawaii public school students in grades 3-8 and 11 will start taking a new state assessment that better informs educators on each child's progress ...

State auditors said Smarter Balanced student assessments are confusing and unpopular, according to a new audit report. Though these concerns have come up in the past, the audit team now suggests a ...

A new volume released by the National Academy of Education (NAEd) this month, Reimagining Balanced Assessment Systems, "expands upon our understanding of balanced assessment systems and provides ...

Beginning in August, Delaware parents and guardians will have the option of allowing their children to skip the state’s annual assessment, which currently is the Smarter Balanced Assessment System.

"The Smarter Balanced assessment system will allow teachers and parents to see how students are progressing throughout their schooling, what skills they have mastered, and get access to additional ...

One of the things I hear most frequently on my beat, reporting on common standards and assessments, is frustration with the lack of instructional resources available at the moment. (See one of my ...

The Dec. 2 op-ed written by my fellow Oregon teacher raises serious concerns about the need for teachers to know what tests their high school students will be asked to take next year ("Oregon should ...

Our research found significantly higher student performance at schools that measure fundamental school quality factors and boast high levels of student engagement. What effect does student engagement ...

(TNS) -- Sacramento, Calif.'s Howe Avenue Elementary School, the largest elementary school in the San Juan Unified School District, is in a threadbare neighborhood of strip malls, faded homes and ...