For the fifth time in a school week, Van Nuys High School theater teacher Justin Baldridge stood facing a nearly empty classroom. A mere eight of his 24 students sat in his third period class. As he ...

Corrected: A previous version of this article misstated the consequences for low-performing schools related to state and federally required testing. Students in one Arizona district will take fewer ...

In “Straight Talk with Rick and Jal,” Harvard University’s Jal Mehta and I examine the reforms and enthusiasms that permeate education. In a field full of buzzwords, our goal is simple: Tell the truth ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

What indeed is the point of having large-scale, unmanageable, homogenised examinations? Generally relying on MCQs or short answers, these assessment procedures neither examine the conceptual clarity ...