Happy New Year, and welcome to the Year of the Common Assessments. Or at least the year of common-assessment procurements. I know; what a nerdy way to usher in a new year, right? Sorry; we can’t help ...

It’s no small thing to transition from one state assessment system to another. So it will be interesting to see what happens as 45 states and the District of Columbia figure out how to transition from ...

Aligned to the Common Core State Standards, the forthcoming tests from two nonprofit state assessment consortia—the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium and the Partnership for Assessment of ...

Amid a growing movement for colleges to undergo national standardized assessments, Georgetown officials have said such efforts are misleading and narrow in scope. In the past five years, a number of ...

After spending last week in Washington, D.C., I was struck by how nervous folks in education circles are about whether states will stick with the Common Core state standards once the Common Core ...

The Common Core State Standards Initiative is a state-led effort to apply nationalized academic standards across the United States, eschewing the disparate standards of the past. Forty-five states ...