Reasonable people can come to different conclusions about the proper role of standardized testing, what qualities should be measured and how to measure them. Those debates are healthy and productive.

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With many students returning to school in September, educators are preparing their classes for the new year and getting ready for the standardized testing that takes place annually. These standardized ...

After making standardized tests optional for admissions during the pandemic, elite universities like Dartmouth, MIT, Yale and, most recently, Brown have recognized ...

A new book by Nicolas Lehmann argues against reliance on standardized testing for determining access to quality higher education. Only a couple of years after the Covid-19 pandemic led most four-year ...

Schooling as we have known it for the past couple of centuries or more has never been a great means of education. It relies on coercion. It is premised on the misguided assumption that everyone can ...

Last Thursday two highly selective institutions landed on opposite sides of the standardized testing debate. The University of Michigan formally adopted a test-optional policy, four years after ...

A previous version of this article misstated the percentage of educators who believe artificial intelligence will make standardized testing worse, according to a survey conducted by the EdWeek ...

Standardized testing continues to be a critical component in U.S. education and college admissions. This stands true even as formats evolve and new technologies reshape the academic experience. This ...