If you work long enough in education, you see that most academic trends swing through extreme phases like a pendulum. College admissions trends have followed suit, especially regarding standardized ...

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A common criticism of public education are the results of standardized test scores and the level of proficiency among student populations that accompany them. This is sometimes used to argue that ...

As a young student who has weathered the storm of standardized testing, I have experienced firsthand the mixed bag of benefits and harms it brings to our education system. Standardized testing, with ...

Dartmouth College will again require prospective students to submit standardized test scores beginning with the undergraduate class of 2029, resuming a policy halted for years because of the coron a ...

In “Extension of Harvard’s Test-Optional Policy Fires ‘a Shot Across the Bow’ of Higher Ed“ (The Chronicle, December 17), you write that Harvard’s decision to extend its test-optional policy through ...

States must resume their annual standardized tests this spring, the Biden administration confirmed on Monday. While the tests will be required, the U.S. Department of Education is allowing for new ...

A coalition of teachers unions, advocates and parents’ groups are pushing a long list of changes to the standardized test Illinois elementary students take each spring. They are motivated by a widely ...