Donna Carlson was a nervous wreck before her Clinton Avenue School fourth-graders took the Common Core field test last year. She worried not that her students would fail at using the necessary online ...

Missouri public school children spent untold hours this spring prepping for a new computer-based standardized test. It required written essays, details to back up answers, and raised concerns that ...

Even as states begin administering new tests aligned with the Common Core State Standards, they are ramping up efforts to eliminate or minimize public backlash when the scores—widely expected to be ...

More than a million students across the country have traded their No. 2 pencils, test booklets, and bubble sheets for computing devices to participate in a pilot of math and English/language arts ...

Gov. Bobby Jindal issued an executive order asking the state school board to allow alternatives to the Common Core test it plans to use this spring. (Photo by Brianna Paciorka, NOLA.com | The ...

TWIN FALLS | Twin Falls students will spend more time reading and writing this school year — even in subjects such as physical education. Students headed back to class Thursday and school officials ...

Between March 25 and June 6, more than 4 million kids will sit for the trial run of national Common Core tests. Faced with a rise in parents who don’t want their kids taking these tests, state ...