It's not the test that parents and kids should fear. It's the loss of real learning that these kinds of assessments cost them.

Recently, South Korea's former minister of education warned Americans against praising the "educational zeal" of South Korean parents, saying that Korean schools had become too test-centered.

USA Today's reports on the reliability of student test scores unfairly leave the impression district leaders avoided an investigation into possible cheating. Further, it implies cheating was widespread. I'd like to set the record straight.

"Students Sound Off," is an ongoing student blogger contest aimed at providing students a loud and clear voice in the education debate presented by Hu...

By 2012, three-quarters of the nation's schools will require students to pass a high school graduation test to earn a diploma. This growing trend has...

In the end, I'm not mad at my son's teacher. She's just a product of the culture. A sad culture designed to create mass failure -- failing students, failing schools, and failing teachers.

The Finns "trust teachers" and allow them to "design their own courses, using a national curriculum as a guide."

Sometimes research is cited in ways that are disingenuous because anyone who takes the time to track down those studies often finds that they actually offer little or no support for the claims in question.

The sticky problem is the removal of teachers for "refusal to obey rules." As everybody who has ever held a job knows, most workplace rules are designed to legally protect employers.

If there's one thing the uber-confident if minimally-experienced education reformers can agree on, it's that this country's students need "high standards."

Taking a test is not just a passive mechanism for assessing how much people know, according to new research. It actually helps people learn, and it wo...

As news of Griegos's success has permeated the city, teachers say they are often asked the school's secret.

ALPHARETTA, Ga. — An educational standards agency said Tuesday it has placed Atlanta Public Schools on probation and given the system nine month...

SEATTLE — A simple writing exercise can relieve students of test anxiety and may help them get better scores than their less anxious classmates,...

Is it possible that it is precisely our approach to educational policy over the past several iterations of "reform" that has been contributing to results?

Tests, standards, accountability, economic competitiveness, managers, vouchers, data, metrics... does anyone actually care about children?

Our kids aren't McDonald's french fries, Gap jeans, or Vogue subscriptions. They are not clones that can be uniformly subjected to rigid standards nor should, or can they be judged by the same test.

We too often oversimplify important, complex issues in education and rely on testing in ways it wasn't designed to be used by people that don't really understand that.

People will always be more passionate about their kids (or neighbors) playing a game than they will about test scores. It's just more fun.