A new policy brief reviews the assessments currently used in 40 states to weigh the skills of their youngest learners and offers advice to policymakers on how to craft their own systems. Authors ...

Lakeland, FL -- How young is too young when it comes to assessing our kids' performance at school? A Lakeland pre-K has filed a petition asking state lawmakers to put the brakes on a new law that ...

When right-wing legislators and the state’s teacher’s union agree on something, it’s probably worth sitting up and taking notice. That seems to be the case when it comes to standardized testing of pre ...

Twenty states now use student performance in the early grades to assess teachers, yet current evaluation systems don’t provide an accurate picture of what’s happening in the classroom, asserts a study ...

Maryland was named one of seven states awarded millions in grant funds from the U.S. Department of Education to develop a new assessment for pre-kindergartners, officials announced Friday. The state, ...

Those of us in the news business have been getting pounded with incendiary emails from the Wendy Davis campaign asserting that UPDATE: The Abbott campaign is now trying to cover up his policy ...