UPDATE: This story was updated Friday evening with comments from a Murphy administration official. New Jersey schools will begin using a new kind of “adaptive” statewide standardized test next spring ...

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There’s a difference between teaching to the test and developing test-specific thinking that will help students effectively apply what they’ve learned all year.

When they voted to end the STAAR test, lawmakers said they wanted to reduce the amount of time students spend taking tests.

FOX23 reached out to several school districts across the Tulsa metro to see if they have received any new guidance or instructions about changes to state testing since Walters made his announcement.

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 ...

ILLINOIS, USA — Education officials in Illinois expect to see a significant increase this year in the percentage of students classified as proficient in reading, writing and math, along with a slight ...

A new effort in Los Angeles public schools will deemphasize standardized testing and look for new ways to measure student progress, a small but ambitious rejection of a decades-old nationwide approach ...

TULSA, Okla. — Local teachers unions responded to the recent mandate made by State Superintendent Ryan Walters claiming he's putting an end to end-of-year state testing. FOX23 reported on Friday when ...

There’s a bill under consideration in the Florida Senate that removes the teeth of state testing requirements for graduation. And Florida is not the only state working the refs — removing state ...