For students, the start of a new school year can feel like a blank slate, a chance to begin anew. This year, however, Seattle students (along with their parents and teachers) can be forgiven for ...

Each year, the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) releases the results of the Missouri Assessment Program, a standardized test commonly known as the MAP test, which in part ...

(KFVS) - Missouri student achievement continues to rise as the Missouri Assessment Program (MAP) testing results are released. Test results for 2011-2012 released by the Department of Elementary and ...

Each academic year Catholic elementary schools in the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois participate in standardized testing using the Measure of Academic Progress (MAP) test. Testing in Diocesan ...

Four decades ago at the Jolly Roger restaurant in Chehalis, a group of school administrators dreamed up the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP), the set of exams that is now under attack in Seattle.

Earlier this month, teachers at Garfield High School in Seattle, Washington, voted unanimously to stop administering a widely used standardized test, calling them wasteful and unfairly used to grade ...

Q: I’m sick of all the testing my 3rd grader has to endure. What can you tell me about MAP testing? My child spends several days every year taking this ridiculous test. Now I’m hearing that it’s ...

Teachers at Garfield High School in Seattle say they have voted overwhelmingly to refuse to administer a district-wide standardized test. A statement from Garfield teachers called the test a waste of ...