A new paper from Jamil Maroun and Christopher Tienken sets out to determine whether a state’s big standardized test measures student learning, teacher effectiveness, or something else. The answer, it ...

It’s become all too apparent that high school grades are insufficient in signaling college preparedness.

Students have made some progress toward academic recovery, but overall achievement hasn’t yet reached pre-pandemic levels, new test results show. The data are from the COVID-19 School Data Hub, a 2021 ...

LAUSD test scores improved more than statewide results, but academic achievement is falling short of internal goals. Should the targets be easier?

Latrenda Knighten has always liked math. As a child, she remembers breezing through timed tests ‒ high speed, low stakes assignments that challenge students to complete a number of simple problems in ...