Thousands of Texas students couldn't finish the electronic version of a state-mandated, end-of-course exam due to a computer glitch Monday, the Austin...

For a second year, Texas high schools will not be required to count new end-of-course exams as part of a student's grade, Texas Education Commissioner...

The Texas Education Agency is asking the state Legislature for $1 million for investigations into irregularities in student tests. Education Commis...

Texas will need to spend an additional $8 billion annually in order for its students to meet the state's new college and career-readiness standards, s...

This is the worst testing scandal to come along under the high-stakes testing regime that rules our schools, but we have no right to act surprised. What happened in El Paso is not an aberration but an inevitable consequence of high-stakes standardized testing.

The fact that over-testing is corrupting our classrooms is a self-evident truth to teachers, parents and administrations.

Test publisher Pearson, which has a five-year, $468 million contract to create Texas’s state exams through 2015, has responded to research by Univer...

It's getting to the point that politicians are going to have to face what every public-school parent, teacher and administrator in this country knows: high-stakes testing doesn't work.

This piece comes to us courtesy of Texas Watchdog. Principal Robert Earl Peters Jr. left the Dallas school district in 2009 as the district and sta...

As Texas students started taking a new state-mandated test this week, districts across the state have gradually signed on to a resolution that says hi...