Assessment and research organization NWEA recently launched a free dashboard tracking national trends and data on U.S. student academic achievement and growth. The tool documents how K–8 students are ...

Last week, testing provider NWEA—best known for its district-level MAP Growth exams—came out with a bold new claim: The way states give summative assessments is broken. Its solution, however, was a ...

ALBANY — For a second day in a row, some schools in New York could not administer standardized tests because of problems with the computer system students use to take the exams. The ongoing problem ...

Last week PR Manager Simona Beattie from NWEA responded to my October 21 column. My rejoinder follows: Ms. Beattie first takes me to task for not “properly citing sources of quotes.” In fact, I ...

A disproportionately large number of poor and minority students were not in schools for assessments this fall, complicating efforts to measure the pandemic’s effects on some of the most vulnerable ...

Schools across New York State are continuing to have difficulty accessing the Grade 3-8 Computer-Based Testing System on Wednesday. The New York State Education Department said this is the second day ...

NEW YORK (WBNG) -- The New York State of Education Department said many schools across the state are experiencing a slowdown in computer-based testing systems for third to eighth graders. The ...