President Barack Obama announced last week that 10 states will be exempt from the requirements of the highly-criticized No Child Left Behind legislation. In exchange, those states will have to agree ...

PAGE’s Noor Azimah Abdul Rahim says the ‘high stakes’ focus on comparison-driven assessments leaves children without a sense of curiosity. (Bernama pic) Malaysia’s ongoing education reforms may ...

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This chapter discusses the relationships between formative and summative assessments—both in the classroom and externally. In addition to teachers, site-and district-level administrators and decision ...

(TNS) — Many assumed — rightly or wrongly — that the common-core era would bring a windfall for companies in the state testing business. But one of the biggest shifts in the landscape so far has been ...

Corrected: A table in a story that appeared in the Aug. 5 issue of Education Week included the wrong number for the classroom assessment testing in the 2007-08 year. It is $821.9 million. Many assumed ...

In this reflection, a case from a teacher training programme in Lagos would suffice. During a multi-month STEM-focused ...

Sir, – An aim of the new Junior Cycle reforms is a move toward a formal approach to continuous assessment through the use of classroom-based assessment. Implicit in this movement is a reaction to ...

Jovid Juraev, a mentor helping to train teachers in Tajikistan, noticed an important interaction when observing Fayzali Oimahmadov’s classroom: “I was observing a Grade 2 Tajik Language class where ...

The goal is not to eliminate AI from the classroom; the goal is to ensure that human thinking remains central.