Testing has become the end-all, be-all of the public education reform movement. The idea seems quite sensible, that holding students (and teachers) to certain objective standards incentivizes both of ...

The Educational Testing Service is announcing today that it will eliminate 84 of its 195 overseas, computer-based testing centers because the centers are not economically viable. The cuts could make ...

He also turned two Manhattan districts into national models. But his tangled personal finances forced him to resign as the city’s first Hispanic schools chief. By Sam Roberts Graduate school ...