An aspiring teacher (left) works with students in a first-grade classroom. Most candidates who take a commonly used licensing test fail on their first try, and a quarter never pass. Photo by Aaron ...

At least since the first standards-and-testing regime began in K-12 public schools, advocates of all stripes have quarreled over the impact of the tests on teachers’ classroom instruction day to day, ...

I have never been good at standardized tests. In fact, I’m horrible. The problem is that in standardized tests, as opposed to general knowledge or understanding of a particular problem, you need to ...

Teachers must be able to combine several important kinds of knowledge in order to successfully implement classroom science instruction for concept learning. These include knowledge of science content, ...

U.S. fourth- and eighth-graders showed small improvements in their knowledge of geography between 1994 and 2001, but on average, students still have only a basic knowledge of the subject, according to ...

It’s the question raised by the National Council for the Social Studies in a newly released position statement, in which it encourages policymakers and teachers to consider other ways of measuring ...