Each academic year Catholic elementary schools in the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois participate in standardized testing using the Measure of Academic Progress (MAP) test. Testing in Diocesan ...

Three Cape Girardeau students learned recently they received the highest score possible on a state test they took in the spring. Scores on Missouri Assessment Program tests are of the utmost ...

First- through third-grade students in the Fort Worth Independent School District saw slight improvements in math testing from last school year, but they’re still trailing behind their peers across ...

Each year, we take a look at Curriculum Matters’ most-read blog posts, and in 2015 it seems two major themes got readers clicking: common-core testing and math instruction. And that makes sense. This ...

Most Missouri students fared only slightly better or worse than a year ago in meeting state standards in reading, math and science, according to data released today by the Missouri Department of ...

Four decades ago at the Jolly Roger restaurant in Chehalis, a group of school administrators dreamed up the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP), the set of exams that is now under attack in Seattle.

As teachers have voiced in this forum, policies surrounding the number of assessments and the quality of assessments being used in schools need a serious makeover. In a recent article NEA Today, ...

Sarah Lahm had a “revelation” this spring, courtesy of teachers and other parents at Clara Barton Open School in Minneapolis: She could opt her children out of the state’s standardized tests. Lahm ...

COLUMBIA − The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) presented the preliminary results of the 2021-22 Missouri Assessment Program (MAP) to the State Board of Education ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Fewer than half of all Jefferson County Public Schools students tested at grade level in reading, while just more than one-third showed grade-level proficiency in math in the ...