There is a pandemic spreading across our nation. It was exposed in March 2020 with school closures, but has been building since the late 1800s. I’m talking about the lack of great learning. Consider a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here comes another standardized testing season with all the administrator anxiety, teacher turmoil and student disaffection. So ...

Earlier this month, President Trump signed a memorandum requiring increased transparency in higher education admissions. The purpose of the order is to ensure that universities are admitting students ...

Commentary: Find out how artificial intelligence could help shape new, game-changing forms of student assessment. One silver lining of COVID-19 is that it exposed failed legacy systems and processes, ...

Schooling as we have known it for the past couple of centuries or more has never been a great means of education. It relies on coercion. It is premised on the misguided assumption that everyone can ...

Standardized testing is at the heart of most issues regarding education and is a billion-dollar industry. The main benefit of testing is providing an efficient way to rank and sort students, but there ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Missouri’s education leaders are making a big change to standardized tests due to the pandemic. The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) canceled its statewide ...

Diane Ravitch is a former assistant secretary of education and historian. For more than a decade, she has been a leading advocate for America’s public education system and a critic of the modern ...

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It is noteworthy that two of the leading critics of standardized testing in the United States are Yong Zhao, who grew up in China and is now a professor of education at the University of Kansas, and ...