NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - State education leaders overcome a few objections as they adopt new school performance testing procedures to take effect next year. They hope to capitalize on recent strides, but ...

Results from the first round of the Arizona Merit test have been released by the Arizona State Board of Education this year. In 2010, the board adopted and fully implemented new state standards called ...

MADISON, Wis. (CBS 58) -- Months after the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) implemented a new controversial tool to measure students' academic performance, Governor Tony Evers is now describing ...

Shifting academic standards are taking center stage in the state superintendent race this spring. Department of Public Instruction Superintendent Jill Underly, who is running for reelection, ...

For almost the past four decades, academic standards have been a defining focus of efforts to improve student achievement. The movement for high academic standards—determinations of what students ...