A reading assignment on a chalkboard in a Massachusetts high school. In Massachusetts, the states’ standardized English test scores for third- through eighth-graders fell an additional three ...

After being criticized for an alleged lack of transparency, the state Education Department plans to release a larger portion of this year’s Common Core-based exams in July. About 25 percent of last ...

Students in grades 3-8 will begin taking new standardized ELA tests on Wednesday, and new math tests are coming soon. These tests have been long in development — they're supposed to measure how well ...

The state Education Department released test scores Thursday for students statewide in grades 3-8 who took the English Language Arts and math state assessments in the spring under revised state ...