PEORIA — Near the beginning of the year, Whittier Primary School Principal Doug Atkins made the rounds, from classroom to classroom, urging students to meet their goals on what he grades as the most ...

Ann Arbor Public Schools administrators announced this week that Ann Arbor Open will no longer administrate the Northwest Evaluation Association's Measures of Academic Progress test to its students.

Houston ISD’s elementary and middle school students achieved above average annual growth on the reading and math Northwest Evaluation Association's Measures of Academic Progress exams but below ...

Every year, getting into Chicago’s most competitive public high schools is a gut-wrenching, high-stakes process for many students and their parents. This year, some parents say Chicago Public Schools ...

Last week, testing provider NWEA—best known for its district-level MAP Growth exams—came out with a bold new claim: The way states give summative assessments is broken. Its solution, however, was a ...

Chicago Public Schools’ new administration has long complained that assessment tests for the state’s Illinois Standard Achievement Test set the bar too low when preparing kids for college. Now ...