A story about Lackawanna County schools’ standardized test scores published Saturday used the wrong data to evaluate students ...

Each year, America spends roughly $2 billion on standardized achievement tests at the national and state levels. Credit: John Locher/Associated Press The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education.

When the College Board canceled SAT testing in 2020, hundreds of colleges adopted test-optional admissions policies for that fall. The Urban Institute reported that the number of four-year colleges ...

The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) voted 4-3 Tuesday on a resolution that would allow 10 schools to opt out of standardized tests and test preparation beginning in the 2025-26 school year ...

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 ...

Stanford University faculty and students have debated standardized testing as the prestigious higher education institution considers reinstating the test in the admissions process. "The tests ...

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said Thursday that his administration will move all standardized school assessment tests online in an effort to save more classroom time for instruction, create a ...

Last spring, the University of Austin in Texas, declaring the college admissions system “biased,” “broken” and “unjust,” ...

Yale University has announced a new "test-flexible" standardized testing policy set to go into effect for the 2024-25 admissions cycle, following fellow Ivy League school Dartmouth College in ...

On a special episode of The Excerpt podcast: One of the many ways the COVID pandemic upended education was with regards to college admissions. Widespread lockdowns meant that in-person tests like the ...