Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Latrenda Knighten has always liked math. As a child, she remembers breezing through timed tests ‒ high speed, low stakes ...

One of the most hotly contested teaching practices concerns a single minute of math class. Should teachers pull out their stopwatches and administer one-page worksheets in addition, subtraction, ...

As a last word, I think that even if you aren’t into specs grading and the whole no-partial-credit idea, this way of doing timed testing could still work. I should give credit where it’s due and say ...

Re “Timed Tests Are Biased Against Your Kids” (Opinion guest essay, Sept. 22): As a retired high school teacher who taught both general English and International Baccalaureate literature, I had a knee ...

State Education Commissioner Betty Rosa & Co. are recommending that teachers stop giving timed math quizzes, writes The Post Editorial Board. AP Proving once again that children’s interests are the ...

A movement to help students understand rather than memorize has had sprawling effects, including pushback on teaching methods like timed tests.