Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vermont students will be taking a different standardized test this spring. Students will no longer take the Smarter Balanced ...

SEATTLE -- Amid the growing number of parents who are having their students "opt out" of the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) tests, at one Seattle elementary school not a single student ...

Roughly 220 students at Garfield High School have opted out of taking a new standardized test called the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, part of federal Common Core curriculum and testing ...

SEATTLE -- The teachers and parents gathered in the Seattle NAACP office Tuesday afternoon represent the growing "Opt-Out" movement against the new state required standardized test - a test that the ...

Darien school administrators are rapidly working to revise the Smarter Balanced testing schedule following a conference call with Commissioner of Education Stefan Pryor this morning. The testing dates ...

The defendant said the state hadn't proven he had authored the social media posts in question, which he characterized as "hyperbole." Police said they would be looking out for reckless driving, ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Members of the West Yellowstone School District board gathered Wednesday evening for the regular ...

The Smarter Balanced field tests for Darien students are ready to roll out come spring, and gone are the days of taking tests with pencils. However, test results from the field tests will not be ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. - The Bozeman schools superintendent plans to scale back standardized tests that are part of Common Core. We've been following problems with the Smarter Balanced Assessment. It tests ...

As you are aware, SBAC (Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium) testing will begin in the Westport Public Schools later this month. This letter is not to debate the appropriateness of this testing or ...

A decade after Connecticut switched to the Smarter Balanced Assessment to measure academic performance, the debate about “over testing,” student anxiety, costs and “teaching to the test” continues.