When my bosses volunteered me to take a practice exam covering the Common Core's Grade 11 math standards, I wholeheartedly agreed. As an accountant, I work with numbers all day. So, I figured, how ...

International tests scores released this month provide further evidence that U.S. students are behind where they should be in math, a problem that has huge implications for their success in school and ...

EdSource · How a California professor once coded secrets in music (rebroadcast) As parents across the state open the envelopes containing their children’s scores on the new Smarter Balanced ...

Narrow math tests inevitably drive down real standards because accountability pressures principals and teachers to teach to the test. Conversely, well-engineered tests of the math we actually want ...

Every two years, hundreds of thousands of American fourth and eighth grade students take a test called the National Assessment of Educational Progress. The test evaluates students’ reading and math ...