Valley View Community Unit School District 365U officials will be mailing out letters to some elementary and middle school parents warning them that students may score lower on a state test due to the ...

Families usually pack the gym at Elgin’s Harriet Gifford Elementary School to root for basketball players or applaud young thespians, but one night last week, they saved their cheers for ...

MOLINE — The Moline school district hopes a change in the creators of a state-mandated test reduces a scoring drop between the fifth and eighth grades. Robert Dyer, the district's director of ...

Students across the country, including these students in New Mexico, have protested the PARCC test. But a new survey says it is better in some ways than Illinois’ previous standardized test, the ISAT.

The school year is all but over — and the contractor handling Idaho’s new standardized test needs an extension. This spring’s results from the new Idaho Standards Achievement Test by Smarter Balanced ...

SCOTT COUSINS PHOTO Breonna Harris (standing, at left), and Jazmine Williams wait to answer a question while playing a game during "ISAT Saturday" at Madison Accelerated Middle School. Illinois ...

Making the grade just got a little more difficult. The Illinois Student Achievement Test, better known as the ISAT, will be more challenging for elementary and middle school students. Third through ...

A Chicago Public Schools parent explains why her family joined the boycott of the Illinois Standards Achievement Test (ISAT), in a post from the Chill Mama blog. I'M PROUD to say my kids are getting a ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Students at Chicago Public Schools begin taking the ISAT exam this week, but many teachers are refusing to administer the test, and many parents say they won't let their kids take part ...