standardized tests

A high score on the SAT or ACT is no longer required for admission to more than a dozen four-year colleges and universities in Illinois. As of last week,…

The Illinois State Board of Education has decided to review the slate of standardized tests students take, to try to make sure the exams align with each…

If you had to place a bet on where student test scores have plummeted over the past decade and a half, where would you put your money? Chicago Public…

Parents from our panel take on the issue of standardized tests in the state: lawmakers had debated a measure that would allow some students to opt-out of…

Should kids be allowed to skip standardized tests? In Illinois, children already have the right to refuse to take, for example, the PARCC test, associated…

News director Sean Crawford quizzes me about what the just-released preliminary PARCC scores do -- and do not -- say about Illinois students.

Chicago Tribune reveals info about new science test required for 5th, 8th and 10th graders this…

Our next-door-neighbor state has legally ended its relationship with the curriculum associated with Common Core.…

That headline is a quote from Will Rogers. It was on a poster I had hanging in my bedroom as a kid, and I took it with me when I went to college. It's…

When Bob Knight was coaching basketball at my Hoosier alma mater, he once belittled sports journalists by saying: “All of us learn to write in the second…