The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or PARCC, has approved a set of descriptors for the tests it’s designing for the Common Core State Standards. They lay out how many ...

Testing students in groups can help them retain more of what they have learned, according to a team of researchers led by Ronald N. Cortright, an assistant professor of health and human performance at ...

Includes updates and/or revisions. A group that is developing tests for half the states in the nation has dramatically reduced the length of its assessment in a bid to balance the desire for a more ...