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(NEXSTAR) — Are you smarter than an Oklahoma fifth-grader taking their annual math assessment test? As another new school year is underway, it’s never a bad idea to know what the kids are learning — ...

Students and parents who want to practice on MCA III sample problems can go to the website www.perspectiveforfamilies.com. Choose Minnesota on the home page, and then choose the student's grade on the ...

One of the most hotly contested teaching practices concerns a single minute of math class. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift Should teachers pull out their stopwatches and administer one-page ...

Everyone loves standardized tests, right? They are just super awesome in my book. SUPER AWESOME. Here in Louisiana there is the LEAP test. I don't know all the details, but I think students have to ...

Test your math know-how with sample questions from the new Accuplacer. Related Article I graduated from college nearly 25 years ago. Wondering if I’d be considered college-ready now, I arranged at a ...

As parents across the state open the envelopes containing their children’s scores on the new Smarter Balanced assessments administered last spring, only a third of them will see that their children ...