If your kids seem a little dazed these next few weeks, it’s because they're taking yet another standardized test. Hundreds of thousands of kids across Colorado are logging onto computers for several ...

Students in Caddo and Bossier are facing a big day of testing. Louisiana schools start taking the PARCC exams in March, but things are a bit different this year. Retired Caddo Parish teacher Kathy ...

CLEMENTON – Parents leaned into the small Google Chromebook screens, logged in to the PARCC practice test, and sighed. Reading through the questions, their faces twisted. Were their math and language ...

Sarah Blaine is a mother, former teacher and full-time practicing attorney in New Jersey who became a public education activist after watching what was happening in her daughter’s school during the ...

If you’re a teacher in a state that will take the PARCC or Smarter Balanced common-core-aligned assessments next spring, you know by now that the performance tasks for math are going to be hard—likely ...

Statewide math scores went up, but English performance dipped and high school results were the lowest among all grade levels in both subjects in the second year of the controversial PARCC exams. The ...