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 ...

According to two new reports by the Center on Education Policy at George Washington University, district leaders in states belonging to one of the Common Core assessment consortia appear to be hedging ...

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has introduced a new collection of grade-specific tablet apps for kindergarten through sixth grade. The Common Core Reading Practice and Assessment apps are available for ...

New report sheds light on how CCSS assessments are well within states’ budgets Many states that once adopted Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are now pressing the pause button on implementation, in ...

We are finishing our English Language Arts (ELA) testing this week. I am so proud of our students and teachers. They have been positive and focused during the testing. We have not had one student opt ...

Some Alice Ott Middle School teachers display definitions of Common Core State Standards in their classrooms. Most students will take Smarter Balanced assessments later this year. (Laura Frazier/The ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) -- Parents across New York on Tuesday were protesting the statewide Common Core tests by having their children opt out of the exams despite a new state law that essentially ...