It's a ritual of summer: Parents receive their children's standardized test scores for grades 3 to 8 and have to figure out New York State's mysterious 1-4 scoring scale. Most probably figure out that ...

If this year’s English Language Arts test questions looked familiar to third- through eighth-graders who took the state exams, that's because they were. Questions many students had seen in practice ...

Two weeks ago, New York's third- through eighth-graders took Common Core English Language Arts exams. This week, students take Common Core math exams. These exams, now in their second year, differ ...

After two years of interrupted learning caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, less than half of New York's students are proficient in math and ELA, according to results released by New York State on Monday ...