Washington, D.C. – The transition to the Common Core State Standards offers an important opportunity to replace America’s flawed and misaligned assessment system with better and fairer tests, ...

When we talk about assessment, people think of multiple-choice tests. After all, today’s students spend a good bit of time filling in bubbles during testing season. And for teachers, a lot is riding ...

OpenEd's assessment creation tool also allows teachers to associate resources to individual questions. Should a student miss a question on an assessment, OpenEd automatically recommends resources such ...

Five years after dozens of states adopted the Common Core standards for public education, many are now receiving their first significant assessment results. So, has Common Core passed the test?

Washington, D.C. — With the debate over standardized testing reaching a fever pitch, a new report from the Center for American Progress finds a culture of testing and test preparation across many ...

Julie Smith is vice president of CDW•G Higher Education Sales. The clock is ticking on the official implementation of the Common Core State Standards by the 44 states (along with the District of ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Gov. Terry Branstad is removing Iowa from an organization created to develop an assessment system for the Common Core education standards. A Branstad spokesman said Tuesday ...

The debate over the Common Core State Standards Initiative has rocketed to the forefront of education policy discussions around the country. More than 3,000 stories were written about the common core ...

Many states will receive results from assessments aligned with the Common Core State Standards for the first time this fall. These assessments of students' progress, developed by the Smarter Balanced ...