Beginning Oct. 1, all soldiers and noncommissioned officers preparing to attend an NCO professional military education course will be required to take an English comprehension and writing assessment.

Soldiers from the 302nd Maneuver Enhancement Brigade and its downtrace units complete a written examination March 23, 2014, at Fort Devens, Mass. The exam was part of the MEB's best warrior ...

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After decades of paper-and-pencil tests, the new results from the “nation’s report card” in writing come from a computer-based assessment for the first time, but only about one-quarter of the 8th and ...

Includes updates and/or revisions. At a time when many teenagers are consumed by such activities as text-messaging, blogging, and social networking, more middle and high school students than in the ...

I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry as I read these words from the fifth or sixth page of instructions to seventh-graders taking the writing State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (STAAR) ...

Researchers explores the promise and peril of computer-based writing assessment software. "Can we write during recess?" Some students were asking that question at Anna P. Mote Elementary School, where ...

State education officials will streamline the state’s writing-assessment test. The State Board of Education, following a recommendation from Michael Flanagan, state superintendent, announced recently ...