Education News

A few days ago I wrote a post about how Pearson, the world's largest education company, was forced to apologize for making errors in its scoring of assessments for entry into gifted-and-talented programs in New York City public schools. I noted that it was hardly the only time Pearson has had problems with testing. Here's a list of problems that the company has had with standardized tests over the years, in different states. It was compiled by Bob Schaeffer, public education director of FairTest, or the National Center for Fair & Open Testing, a non-profit dedicated to ending the misuse of standardized tests.

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This word has appeared in five New York Times article in the past year.    

Sylvia Todd, 11, has become an online celebrity with her video series, “Sylvia’s Super-Awesome Maker Show.”    

One of the country’s last remaining tuition-free colleges will charge undergraduates deemed able to pay about $20,000 starting in 2014.    

The police arrested three men and sought a fourth on Tuesday on hazing charges related to the death of one Virginia State University freshman and the disappearance of another.    

Education Week analyzes nearly 400 bills related to school safety filed in the days, weeks, and months after the deadliest K-12 school shooting in American history.

System allows secondary students to shift from vocational training to a degree roughly equivalent to the high school diploma.

Some states are trying to provide meaningful, rigorous, and flexible academic and career options for their students.

The administration is seeking to shift Stafford Loans to a market-based rate at the time of the loan, but some warn that such a move could dampen college access.

Pressures put on school systems by the upcoming common-core assessments, and increasing emphasis on digital learning, are straining districts' online capacity, the official says.

The District’s school system has extended the academic year by one day to make up for classes missed due to inclement weather, officials said Tuesday.

The school year was initially scheduled to end with a half-day of instruction on June 20. Now that will be a full day of instruction and classes will continue for a half-day on June 21.

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The first of two groups of states working to design common assessments has released a draft accommodations manual that outlines the types of test supports that can be used to help ELLs and students with disabilities.

About 90 students at the Culinary Institute of America walked out of classes Tuesday to protest what they called a weakening enforcement of educational standards.    

City leaders must make after-school education a priority, a group of mayors and city council members writes.

Teach For America has many good points, but it could do more to help its corps members, Lauren Blair Aronson writes.