During the past decade, the educators who operate America’s public schools have been increasingly preoccupied with students’ scores on standardized achievement tests. That’s because schools whose ...

It’s well known that good standardized test takers also tend to have high cognitive ability. That’s not a shocker. But until recently, very little research has looked at the effect of improving ...

States are increasingly dependent on the outcomes of achievement tests to determine their priorities and the allocation of resources to achieve their educational goals. Florida is no exception. The ...

Conversely, the study found a different pattern of brain activity in low-income children who performed well in achievement tests, which suggests that previous studies have depended on more well-to-do ...

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For more than a decade, standardized-test scores have been the dominant metric for measuring what public-school students know and are able to do. No Child Left Behind, the sweeping federal education ...

Echoing a nationwide downward trend, most California students are falling short of state learning targets and are not on track to succeed in college, according to the results of new, more rigorous ...

The formula gives districts with more low-income students, English learners and foster youth a greater share of money than those with predominantly wealthier, English-fluent students. One goal of this ...