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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

TUCSON, Ariz., July 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Learning A-Z ®, a Cambium Learning ® Group company, announced today its new partnership with not-for-profit organization NWEA ®, a global leader in ...

An analysis of national test score data Tuesday further confirms a dismal reality facing schools: Academically, kids aren’t where they would’ve been before the pandemic, and they aren’t progressing at ...

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 ...

PORTLAND, Ore., Mar. 1, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Expanding its 42-year commitment to education research and in support of its mission to help all students learn, NWEA, the not-for-profit provider of ...

When it comes to reading, the nation's third- through eighth-graders are still mired in a pandemic-era slump, according to new testing data. In math, the news is only a little more heartening: Student ...