The Misguided War on the SAT Colleges have fled standardized tests, on the theory that they hurt diversity. That’s not what the research shows.
Math Scores Dropped Globally, but the U.S. Still Trails Other Countries In a global exam for 15-year-olds, only a handful of places, including Singapore, Japan and Australia, kept math performance high through the pandemic.
College Board Pushes A.P. Courses and Tests, Even as They Fail Some Students This year, taxpayers paid the nonprofit at least $90 million for A.P. tests that many students failed.
New York Is Set to Make Regents Exams Optional for Graduation The tests had once been seen as a hallmark of academic rigor, but high-stakes graduation tests have fallen out of favor nationally.