Vermont students will be taking a different standardized test this spring. Students will no longer take the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) and the Vermont Science Assessment (VTSA) ...

SEATTLE -- Amid the growing number of parents who are having their students "opt out" of the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) tests, at one Seattle elementary school not a single student ...

SEATTLE -- The teachers and parents gathered in the Seattle NAACP office Tuesday afternoon represent the growing "Opt-Out" movement against the new state required standardized test - a test that the ...

In response to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on education, Salem-Keizer Public Schools will not administer the Smarter Balanced state assessment this spring, putting the district ...

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As you are aware, SBAC (Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium) testing will begin in the Westport Public Schools later this month. This letter is not to debate the appropriateness of this testing or ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Members of the West Yellowstone School District board gathered Wednesday evening for the regular ...

In 2016-17, states’ testing systems have begun to settle down after several years of transition sparked by the Common Core State Standards. By now, most states have chosen not to use the PARCC and ...

A decade after Connecticut switched to the Smarter Balanced Assessment to measure academic performance, the debate about “over testing,” student anxiety, costs and “teaching to the test” continues.

SOONER THIS DATA IS RELEASED, THE BETTER. WE’VE BEEN WORKING REALLY HARD TO GET IT OUT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. LEADERS WITH THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION PROMISING TO PUSH OUT KEY SCHOOL TESTING ...