PEORIA — Near the beginning of the year, Whittier Primary School Principal Doug Atkins made the rounds, from classroom to classroom, urging students to meet their goals on what he grades as the most ...

Houston ISD’s elementary and middle school students achieved above average annual growth on the reading and math Northwest Evaluation Association's Measures of Academic Progress exams but below ...

PASSING THE TORCH: Looks like NWEA, provider of the popular MAP exam, will now also administer the OECD Test for Schools Pisa Exam to US students, beginning in the fall of 2016. Is it just us, or does ...

Houston Independent School District elementary and middle school students in New Education System campuses saw slightly more growth in math and reading than students at non-NES campuses, according to ...

Ann Arbor Public Schools administrators announced this week that Ann Arbor Open will no longer administrate the Northwest Evaluation Association's Measures of Academic Progress test to its students.

Every year, getting into Chicago’s most competitive public high schools is a gut-wrenching, high-stakes process for many students and their parents. This year, some parents say Chicago Public Schools ...

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Teachers and students will have extra homework after the pandemic ends, as new findings show growth in math scores has fallen since last school year. Most Georgia students haven’t taken a ...

Please check your inbox for your confirmation. Every fall for nearly a decade, teacher Kelly Crawford would give her students a standardized test called the NWEA MAP and then try to convince her ...

Last week, testing provider NWEA—best known for its district-level MAP Growth exams—came out with a bold new claim: The way states give summative assessments is broken. Its solution, however, was a ...