After making standardized tests optional for admissions during the pandemic, elite universities like Dartmouth, MIT, Yale and, most recently, Brown have recognized ...

There’s a difference between teaching to the test and developing test-specific thinking that will help students effectively ...

The five-year experiment in ignoring SAT and ACT results has failed. Continuing it would be a disservice to students who aren't prepared for college.

Standardized testing has been under fire in recent years, including in Massachusetts schools, where high school students must take the MCAS to graduate. In the last decade, public opinion on ...

This past year might be remembered in the annals of education as the beginning of the end for standardized testing. Institutions long venerated for their academic quality, such as Colby College and ...

Although more high school students can forgo the SAT and ACT, standardized tests generally – and the pressures students face related to them – aren't going anywhere. Under the federal Every Student ...

Policy hounds have been searching for a tool to accurately and fairly evaluate K-12 teachers for years, and to date, they have been largely unsuccessful. That has left us stalled in versions of the ...

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Standardized tests are often debated for how well they accomplish their goal of egalitarianism. The idea behind standardized tests is that they give everyone a chance, regardless of their situation: ...