Joseph Spector, Albany Bureau ChiefPublished 1:41 p.m. ET April 11, 2018 ALBANY — Some students taking multiple-choice exams on computers had all the possible answers show up as “system error.” Other schools couldn’t log into the exams at all Wednesday morning, while others reported having students’ work lost when the system crashed. The state Education…
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Report: North Dakota Student Test Scores Remain Stagnant
Results of a national assessment show reading and math scores of fourth- and eighth-grade students in North Dakota had little improvement since 2015. April 11, 2018, at 3:42 p.m. BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Results of a national assessment show reading and math scores of fourth- and eighth-grade students in North Dakota made little improvement since 2015. The…
In California, national test scores show enduring achievement gaps
By JOY RESMOVITS APR 09, 2018 | 9:00 PM Every two years, the nation’s fourth- and eighth-graders are tested in math and reading — and newly released results from last year’s tests give California at least a little reason to be pleased. The 2017 results — out Monday night — were mostly flat nationwide, though the average…
Test Scores Show Students Made Little Progress in National Exam
By Tawnell D. Hobbs Updated April 9, 2018 11:26 p.m. ET American students had nearly flat results in math and reading on a national exam, continuing a pattern of stagnation over most of the past decade, as some of the lowest performers fell further behind. Eighth-graders made the only statistically significant gain—1 point—in reading, for…
Massachusetts Test Scores Top Nation’s School Districts Again
Fourth- and eight-graders in the Bay State outperformed their peers on the National Assessment of Educational Progress exams in 2017. by HAYLEY GLATTER· 4/10/2018, 9:05 a.m. It may supposedly be lonely at the top, but we’d say the view is just fine from up here. The latest results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress exams were…
A Punishing Decade for School Funding
NOVEMBER 29, 2017 BY MICHAEL LEACHMAN KATHLEEN MASTERSON ERIC F IGUEROA Public investment in K-12 schools — crucial for communities to thrive and the U.S. economy to offer broad opportunity — has declined dramatically in a number of states over the last decade. Worse, some of the deepest-cutting states have also cut income tax rates, weakening their…
Trump Seeks to Cut Education Budget by 5 Percent, Expand School Choice Push
By Andrew Ujifusa on February 12, 2018 1:05 PM President Donald Trump is seeking a roughly 5 percent cut to the U.S. Department of Education’s budget for fiscal 2019 in a proposal that also mirrors his spending plan from last year by seeking to eliminate a major teacher-focused grant and to expand school choice. Trump’s proposed budget, released…
DeVos seeks cuts from Education Department to support school choice
By Valerie Strauss, Danielle Douglas-Gabriel and Moriah Balingit February 13 More than $1 billion would be spent on private school vouchers and other school choice plans under the budget proposal released Monday by President Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. The proposal also calls for slashing the Education Department’s budget and devoting more resources to career training, at the expense…
Alabama’s national test scores still low, but not last
By Trisha Powell Crain tcrain@al.com Results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, released Tuesday, show Alabama’s scores in fourth- and eighth-grade reading and math remain unchanged from 2015, the last time the tests were given. Scores at the national level were flat, too, except in eighth-grade reading, where scores increased. Scores in Alabama were…
Parents Voice Concerns Over New Charter School System (Alabama)
Updated: Apr 6, 2018 9:16 AM CDT by Ellis Eskew The Montgomery Education Foundation has applied to convert five Montgomery schools into charter schools. Parents and citizens voiced their concerns Thursday evening at a listening session. And they had plenty to say. “Today the Ed Foundation, the business community, under the guise of improvement, they are…
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