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

Standardized testing has been under fire in recent years, including in Massachusetts schools, where high school students must take the MCAS to graduate. In the last decade, public opinion on ...

Dartmouth College and Yale University both recently announced that they would be requiring standardized test scores in undergraduate admissions, following a four year pause on the requirement due to ...

Although more high school students can forgo the SAT and ACT, standardized tests generally – and the pressures students face related to them – aren't going anywhere. Under the federal Every Student ...

Johns Hopkins University (JHU) has joined a growing list of colleges that are bringing back standardized testing as a part of their admissions process. Many prestigious universities decided to get rid ...

Standardized tests are often debated for how well they accomplish their goal of egalitarianism. The idea behind standardized tests is that they give everyone a chance, regardless of their situation: ...

A new paper from Jamil Maroun and Christopher Tienken sets out to determine whether a state’s big standardized test measures student learning, teacher effectiveness, or something else. The answer, it ...

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 ...

Written communications in the workplace may consist of a variety of documents, from emails and memos to worker manuals and website pages. Written communications in any form may be filed away for ...

When the world of K-12 education spiraled into confusion last spring, many teachers and students quietly delighted in the disappearance of high-stakes tests. The multiple-choice questions and hours ...

Becoming a standardized patient requires a good memory, and excellent listening skills and concentration while being trained, interviewed and examined. Prior acting experience is not required.