UPDATE: This story was updated Friday evening with comments from a Murphy administration official. New Jersey schools will begin using a new kind of “adaptive” statewide standardized test next spring ...

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Corrected: A previous version of this article misstated the consequences for low-performing schools related to state and federally required testing. Students in one Arizona district will take fewer ...

TULSA, Okla. — Local teachers unions responded to the recent mandate made by State Superintendent Ryan Walters claiming he's putting an end to end-of-year state testing. FOX23 reported on Friday when ...

The State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, known as STAAR, are a series of state-mandated standardized tests used in Texas schools to assess a student’s achievements and knowledge. Diane ...

A new effort in Los Angeles public schools will deemphasize standardized testing and look for new ways to measure student progress, a small but ambitious rejection of a decades-old nationwide approach ...

FOX23 reached out to several school districts across the Tulsa metro to see if they have received any new guidance or instructions about changes to state testing since Walters made his announcement.

ILLINOIS, USA — Education officials in Illinois expect to see a significant increase this year in the percentage of students classified as proficient in reading, writing and math, along with a slight ...