The Common Core has come under fire by parents who say the new education standards make math needlessly complicated. Schools have adopted new ways of teaching subtraction and multiplication, and ...

A Brooklyn elementary school violated testing rules by stockpiling numerous copies of prior years’ exams – and then giving the materials to teachers and students to prepare for new exams, a ...

On any given ACT math section, 40-43% of the questions will fall under the category of Integrating Essential Skills, or IES. The makers of the ACT describe these question types as more complex because ...

MOBILE, Ala. -- An Alabama teacher is on leave after giving middle school students a test with math questions about prostitutes, drugs and guns, a school official said Wednesday. Rena Philips, a ...

It's that time of year, when students around the Lone Star State take the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness, or STAAR test, to test, well...their academic readiness. The standardized ...