The Advocate

Fewer Baton Rouge-area students score top levels on Common Core tests, more scoring at the bottom

A new battery of Common Core-based tests proved to be trouble for some of the best students in Baton Rouge metro area public schools The tests, known at PARCC, short for Partnership for Assessment of ...
Yahoo

R.I. math test scores inch up while those in Mass. plateau. Will state ever catch up?

A reading assignment on a chalkboard in a Massachusetts high school. In Massachusetts, the states’ standardized English test scores for third- through eighth-graders fell an additional three ...
The Daily Gazette

State reluctant to release Common Core test questions

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 ...
New York Post

Only a third of NYC 4th graders deemed ‘proficient’ in math as Big Apple students lag behind state, national averages

According to a report released Wednesday by the "Nation's Report Card," New York City fourth and eighth graders still lag behind state and national averages in math and reading. EduLife Photos - stock ...