This month, New York State reported that just 22 percent of the eighth graders who took this year’s Common Core-aligned math test received a passing mark. To find out how you compare with an eighth ...

The scores of fourth- and eighth-grade American students testing in a national exam in reading and math declined significantly. Setbacks in mathematics were especially striking, with scores falling ...

You’ve heard it hundreds of times since the drumbeat of common-core testing began: Anticipate lower proficiency rates on standardized tests. That’s what happens, people say, when you adopt tough new ...

ALBANY — Less than half of New York students scored at or above grade level in English and math, according to the grade 3-8 assessment results. In English, the results were slightly higher than they ...

While officials at the U.S. Department of Education expressed concern with results of the “Nation’s Report Card,” noting that it depicts a “heartbreaking reality,” Gov. JB Pritzker and the Illinois ...

Monday marked the start of a multiweek window for school districts statewide to administer the standardized English Language Arts and math exams in grades 3-8, with more schools giving the tests ...