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Standardized tests are returning to the nation’s schools this spring, but millions of students will face shorter exams that carry lower stakes, and most families are being given the option to forgo testing entirely. With new flexibility from the Biden administration, states are adopting a patchwork of testing plans that aim to curb the stress of exams while still capturing some data on student learning. The lenient approach means large swaths of students will go untested, shattering hopes for a full picture of how much learning has been set back by the pandemic.

Students in Washington are getting a reprieve this spring from their annual state-mandated standardized tests. Washington state school Superintendent Chris Reykdal wanted to try something different when it came to this spring’s federally-mandated standardized tests. “There’s this significant worry that we have very little instructional time left," he said. So his agency proposed a new idea to the federal Department of Education. “Rather than haul in 700,000 kids and give them the equivalent of 17 exams across all those grades, we pitched a sample, 50,000 student sample, one of the big...

Letters: The tests are mired in racism and discrimination.

Answering the question of how the state would handle standardized testing this year, the Florida Department of Education issued an emergency order Friday waiving accountability...

Some simple, obvious facts are too politically incorrect for academics to state publicly. Georgetown University just fired law professor Sandra Sellers and forced out professor David Batson. Sellers' offense? "I end up having this angst every semester that a lot of my lower ones are blacks," Sellers' said in discussion with another professor at the end of a Zoom call. Batson's offense? He didn't condemn the statement, but instead sympathized with Sellers’ concerns. “What drives me crazy is… my own unconscious biases playing out in the scheme of things” might be responsible for their p...