During the past decade, the educators who operate America’s public schools have been increasingly preoccupied with students’ scores on standardized achievement tests. That’s because schools whose ...

It’s well known that good standardized test takers also tend to have high cognitive ability. That’s not a shocker. But until recently, very little research has looked at the effect of improving ...

A promising study found that kindergartners in classes with shared iPads significantly outscored their peers on achievement tests who were in classes that had no iPads or classes with iPads for each ...

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States are increasingly dependent on the outcomes of achievement tests to determine their priorities and the allocation of resources to achieve their educational goals. Florida is no exception. The ...