What is achievement? In Minnesota, we measure achievement by testing how well students can read English, as well as their math and science skills. But surely “achievement” is far more than what can be ...

ST. PAUL — One of Minnesota's top goals in education is addressing the achievement gap between students but the state lacks a clear definition of that gap and a stated pathway to fix it. That's ...

Yes, the ways in which standardized bubble-in tests are open to abuse are rampant—and gaming of test scores has increasingly important repercussions. In the long run it leads to an increasingly toxic ...

A bill tweaking how Kentucky grades, identifies and supports its schools cleared the Senate amid lingering questions on a change to how the state measures struggling student groups. Senate Bill 158, ...

Morgan Polikoff has a modest proposal. The associate professor at the University of Southern California's Rossier School of Education has been looking over the new federal education law. He thinks the ...