The percentage of District 65 students who met expectations in English Language Arts (ELA) jumped by 8.4 percentage points on ...

Voters approved Question 2, the campaign to end requiring public high school students to pass the MCAS in order to earn their diplomas.

Massachusetts voted to eliminate MCAS as a graduation requirement, but the test will still be administered. Here's what ...

The California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) has become a cornerstone of evaluating academic achievement in California, but focusing e ...

Question 2 sought to eliminate the decades-long standardized test as a prerequisite to a high school diploma. It was backed ...

Ballot Question 2​ on the future of MCAS exams has been one of the most contentious issues in Massachusetts during the 2024 election.

BOSTON — Massachusetts voters approved plans to audit the state Legislature and scrap the MCAS high school graduation mandate, but rejected proposals to legalize psychedelic mushrooms and do away with ...

In language arts, third graders improved from 5.9% meeting expectations in 2023, to 10.8% in 2024. The state average was 37.2 ...

Sierra Unified is taking a number of steps this year to boost students' academic performance, which still lags pre-pandemic ...

In the fall of 2019, four high schools in a San Francisco Bay Area district shook up many of their ninth grade math classes. Students had traditionally been separated into more than five math courses ...

But if the heterogeneous class avoided those pitfalls, the new math placement would give hundreds of students with low test scores in seventh and ... had already taken algebra in eighth grade or ...

When principal Jess McMurray saw the math scores at Soda Springs High, he decided something had to be done. It’s not that the scores were especially terrible — they’re above the state average, after ...