Report cards are designed to communicate a student’s overall progress and mastery of standards over time, not a single day’s performance. Standardized benchmark tests like i-Ready serve primarily as ...

PATs remain a locally designed, evidence-based assessment option for schools in 2026, and we recommend using them in Term 1 where possible. We are developing alignment between PAT scores and the ...

You’ve checked for understanding—now you can use this framework to understand what students’ confusion is telling you, and how you can adjust course.

Educators in a research partnership have found that early math screening is a helpful teaching tool that helps educators ...

Scores on New York’s statewide assessment tests improved in both math and English language arts during the 2024-2025 school year. Statewide, 57% of students tested proficient in math last year, up 3 ...

Formative assessment is widely accepted as an essential strategy that teachers of all levels should know and use. At the secondary education level, a crucial stage in learner development, teachers are ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

Formative assessment is one of the most powerful tools teachers can use to guide learning. Unlike summative assessment, which summarizes achievement at the end of a unit, formative assessment happens ...

SOLVING THINGS THEY NEED TO SUCCEED. I THINK THAT IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO LOOK AT THESE RESULTS AND BE ANYTHING OTHER THAN ALARMED, AND TO FEEL ANYTHING OTHER THAN URGENCY AND A NEED TO RESPOND. A ...

New test scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as the Nation's Report Card, show eighth-graders' science scores have fallen 4 points since 2019 and ...