In 1983, “A Nation at Risk” focused political decisionmakers on the necessity of reframing public education into an accountability model designed to provide minimum standards of achievement. By 2001, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This article was originally published in Florida Phoenix. Concerned about lowering standards in Florida’s public high schools, the ...

Wearing graduation caps and nervous smiles, the Columbia High School sophomores walked one by one through a blue, white and orange balloon arch at the center of the gymnasium. It symbolized their ...

When East Brunswick High School gave standardized tests this spring, hundreds of sophomores skipped their English exam with confidence. The teens had previously passed the PARCC English test for ninth ...

Florida students must pass the state’s 10th-grade language arts exam to earn a high school diploma. That’s been true for more than a decade and remains true as the state shifts this year to a new ...

On Nov. 5, Massachusetts voters will decide whether to keep the state’s two-decade-old state test graduation requirement. The ballot measure, Question 2, would repeal the need for students to pass the ...