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The opt-out movement caught on heavily in Colorado in the late 2010s. A group of education scholars is exploring the reasons why.

The state Board of Regents is indeed moving to kill New York's gold-standard "Regents Diploma."

Standardized tests like the ACT and SAT can be major stressors for students preparing for college. New data is bringing to light the impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic.

High school students’ scores on the ACT college admissions test have dropped to their lowest in more than three decades, showing a lack of student preparedness for college-level coursework, according

UNO plans to begin giving scholarship money based on financial need, not only standardized test scores.

ACT test results have fallen in the US again, marking six consecutive years of declines and raising concerns about whether graduating seniors are ready for college classes.

A new Texas law calls for every student who performs in the top 40% on a fifth-grade math assessment to be enrolled automatically in advanced math for sixth grade.

"I think any gains are positive, but I think there's a lot of work to do," Education Commissioner Jeff Riley said.

Schools need to let struggling students get the marks the deserve in order to help them overcome their limitations, rather than dropping standards (like they're doing in Portland, New York and elsewhere) to conceal the fact that performance is uneven.

The Massachusetts attorney general is poised to decide this week if supporters of a petition to end the state's standardized test requirements for graduation will be permitted to collect signatures to force a statewide referendum.