More than a million students across the country have traded their No. 2 pencils, test booklets, and bubble sheets for computing devices to participate in a pilot of math and English/language arts ...

At least, that was the rep on new tests aligned to the Common Core State Standards that millions of U.S. kids took last spring. Now you can be the judge. There are now a slew of actual math and ...

One of the two-state consortia behind new, Common Core-aligned tests has released questions from its spring assessments. They're hard. At least, that was the rep on new tests aligned to the Common ...

According to the calendar, it’s only two-thirds of the way through winter. But the spring testing season has begun. Tests in many states are being given earlier than they were last year, and that’s ...

Pierre the Pelican "checks his answers" against Pelicans center Jason Smith as they answer sample questions from a new Common Core test on Friday, March 7, 2014. (Michael DeMocker, NOLA.com | The ...

Pierre the Pelican remembered the word "prism" has a special use in mathematics. Did you? (Michael DeMocker, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune) Tuesday's Common Core fifth-grade mathematics question ...