More than half the states have made their tests more difficult to pass, bringing proficiency rates more closely into line with the those of the rigorous National Assessment of Educational Progress, or ...

In “By Ditching the SAT, Harvard Hurts Minority Students” (Upward Mobility, Dec. 22), Jason Riley correctly states that “eliminating the test won’t eliminate the racial achievement gap, because the ...

Mark Schneider nailed one problem posed for No Child Left Behind (NCLB) by the new math results—the gains in math prior to NCLB were larger than they have been since. There’s another problem Mark didn ...

In 2003 the Supreme Court ruled in support of affirmative action in college admissions, but their ruling suggested that affirmative action should become unnecessary in the next 25 years. However, a ...

For decades, the standardized test scores of California students have shown that achievement gaps based on race, ethnicity and class — while troubling — tended to narrow over time. And an alarming ...