Paul W. Bennett, Ed.D., is the director of the Schoolhouse Institute, a senior fellow of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, ...

Is standardized testing dead? Or, to paraphrase Mark Twain, are the reports “greatly exaggerated”? In March 2020, about 1,000 of the 2,300 private nonprofit and public bachelor's-granting colleges and ...

The University of California has slammed the door shut on using any standardized test for admissions decisions, announcing Thursday that faculty could find no alternative exam that would avoid the ...

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In recent years, I have begun each semester by asking my first-year composition students two questions, one theoretical and the other practical. First, the theoretical question: What is the purpose of ...

Harvard College announced on Thursday it wouldn’t require standardized testing scores for applicants applying to the school through the class of 2030. The prestigious institution previously waived ...

Dartmouth College will once again require standardized college admissions tests in order to be admitted to the school, a reversal for the Ivy League school that was one of a thousand schools that made ...

Deciding to opt my two daughters out of Colorado standardized testing seemed like a no-brainer. We aren’t permanent Colorado residents—we’re just here for one academic year while I’m a visiting ...

If you had wandered late last year into Matthew Tosiello’s third-grade science class at Abingdon Elementary School in Virginia, you would have encountered an army of frogs. Origami frogs, that is–palm ...

Listening recently to a local political candidate denigrate public education in Nevada was very disheartening. Not because of character flaws or perceived inability of the candidate. He, like most ...

In a recent tweet, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, asserted: "Standardized testing doesn't help kids learn, and it doesn't help teachers teach." Instead, she argued ...