The questions, taken from a Common Core fourth-grade reading test, came to a Columbia professor in an email from an anonymous teacher, part of a blistering critique of the exam. The professor put the ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. MIAMI, FL — When Gov. Rick Scott announced last week he was pulling Florida out of a multi-state consortium working to create ...

Missouri public school children spent untold hours this spring prepping for a new computer-based standardized test. It required written essays, details to back up answers, and raised concerns that ...

On Tuesday night, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker proposed removing state funding for tests tied to Common Core State Standards, the so-called “Smarter Balanced” test public school students are slated to ...

As Alabama legislators tabled a bill to withdraw from Common Core national standards, its department of education is adopting related tests and attempting to convince legislators and voters to keep ...

Skeptics will point out that if Common Core standards prescribe what students need to know, and tests developed in response to the standards assess whether they know it, it is not a big leap to ...

After being criticized for an alleged lack of transparency, the state Education Department plans to release a larger portion of this year’s Common Core-based exams in July. About 25 percent of last ...

The state today said it has publicly released about half of the questions used on math and English exams given to third- through eighth-graders last spring. The state Education Department said it made ...

Without access to the questions, it is nearly impossible to use the tests to help improve student learning,” the letter states.In short, the PARCC tests seem designed to fail students. Ms. Fougner ...