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

Here comes another standardized testing season with all the administrator anxiety, teacher turmoil and student disaffection. So much of it that, at least in high schools, those mass assessments do as ...

Earlier this month, President Trump signed a memorandum requiring increased transparency in higher education admissions. The purpose of the order is to ensure that universities are admitting students ...

Rooks is the chair of the Africana Studies department at Brown University. She is the author of six books including Integrated: How American Schools Failed Black Children. Do standardized achievement ...

Why do children from lower-income families tend to lag behind students from wealthier homes on standardized test scores and other traditional measures of academic success? On Apr 17, 2015 researchers ...

African American teenage girl sitting at the desk in a classroom holding a pencil and looking down at the paper in front of her. In April, Harvard University announced that it would again require ...

Nearly 2,000 colleges and universities have publicly announced that they will not require the SAT or ACT for admission in fall 2022. That's more than 75% of the degree-granting institutions in the U.S ...

Dartmouth recently made headlines as the first Ivy League institution to reintroduce the standardized testing requirement in the admissions process, after three years of test-optional admissions. The ...

In April, Harvard University announced that it would again require prospective undergraduates to submit either SAT or ACT scores as part of their applications for fall 2025, a significant policy ...