Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vermont students will be taking a different standardized test this spring. Students will no longer take the Smarter Balanced ...

SEATTLE -- The teachers and parents gathered in the Seattle NAACP office Tuesday afternoon represent the growing "Opt-Out" movement against the new state required standardized test - a test that the ...

With states increasingly having walked away from the common-core-aligned tests developed by two federally funded consortia—especially at the high school level—one of those assessment groups is looking ...

Last year the Fairfield Public Schools administered the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium field tests. These were intended to measure the Common Core curriculum that had been adopted by the ...

During its meeting on Tuesday, October 28, the Alameda Unified School District (AUSD) Board of Education focused on Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) results as the single general business ...

“Statistical calculations based on warped figures lead to confusion, frustration and wrong decisions.” These wise words from W. Edwards Deming are most timely as the educational community awaits the ...

The specter of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to loom over Vermont students, as evidenced by the state's recent release of scores on statewide tests from 2022. The year saw very few gains in ...

In response to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on education, Salem-Keizer Public Schools will not administer the Smarter Balanced state assessment this spring, putting the district ...