PASSING THE TORCH: Looks like NWEA, provider of the popular MAP exam, will now also administer the OECD Test for Schools Pisa Exam to US students, beginning in the fall of 2016. Is it just us, or does ...

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"The NWEA test allows us to see not just if the student meets grade-level requirements, but also if they have exceeded them. The questions on the ISTEP exam don't really represent a wide range of what ...

PEORIA — Near the beginning of the year, Whittier Primary School Principal Doug Atkins made the rounds, from classroom to classroom, urging students to meet their goals on what he grades as the most ...

Houston ISD’s elementary and middle school students achieved above average annual growth on the reading and math Northwest Evaluation Association's Measures of Academic Progress exams but below ...

Houston Independent School District elementary and middle school students in New Education System campuses saw slightly more growth in math and reading than students at non-NES campuses, according to ...

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Chicago Public Schools’ new administration has long complained that assessment tests for the state’s Illinois Standard Achievement Test set the bar too low when preparing kids for college. Now ...

Chicago Public School officials and former Mayor Rahm Emanuel spent much of the last five years touting growth every year on the NWEA — the all-important district-mandated reading and math tests that ...