Less than a year after it was enacted, lawmakers will revisit a proposal that brought major changes to Virginia’s K-12 public ...

The Department of Education has issued final regulations clarifying how to test students with the most severe cognitive disabilities and include those results in schools’ performance ratings. “Title I ...

This article was originally published in Chalkbeat. Before starting at his Harlem high school, Jeurry always assumed he was progressing appropriately in school, despite having significant learning ...

Only a small percentage of students are supposed to take alternate assessments intended for those with the most significant cognitive disabilities, but new evidence suggests that states are routinely ...

While intense political pressure has prompted several states to move away from shared tests aligned to the Common Core State Standards, a set of aligned assessments for students with severe cognitive ...

Q: What do “alternative assessments” mean? When we want to know what students know, we give them a test or a quiz. However, these forms of testing don’t always reflect the application of the skills ...

The purpose of this paper is to present findings on alternate assessments for students who are deaf or hard of hearing (SDHH). Drawn from the results of the "Second National Survey of Assessments and ...

Educators at all levels agree on the need to assess what their students know, but a growing number of them find that tests are not the best way to do it. This trio of educators has found innovative ...

California schools will be expected to administer Smarter Balanced and other statewide tests this spring, but districts can select alternatives in cases where these tests are not “viable” to ...