At Los Penasquitos Elementary School in San Diego, students spend a good part of their day putting pen to paper: writing letters and persuasive essays, composing poetry and short stories, and ...

Princeton and Stanford last week became the latest schools to drop the SAT essay requirement. The College Board made the section optional in 2016. Skeptics will applaud this essay’s demise as a return ...

The National Council of Teachers of English said in a report issued this month that the new writing component of the SAT is not an effective way to measure students’ writing ability or potential.

The Government’s new reading test for year 8s will sit alongside new “diagnostic” maths and writing tests to help teachers ...

A former chairman of the State Board of Education is criticizing a plan to eliminate standardized tests to measure students' writing ability. The state Department of Public Instruction is considering ...

The numbers for the state's fourth-grade writing tests should be out, but they are not because there is a problem with the scores. State school leaders held up grading of tests to check reliability of ...

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