High school students already face a battery of standardized tests on their way to college. Now, the college testing frenzy is reaching into middle school. The College Board, which owns the SAT, PSAT ...

MERRILL, MI — Students at Merrill Elementary School outperformed their grade-level counterparts from the year before on the 2012 Michigan Educational Assessment Program (or MEAP) Test, the state's ...

AUSTIN, Texas (KTRK) -- The grade promotion requirement related to the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) test for 5th and 8th grade students has been waived for the upcoming ...

A recent report by the National Assessment of Educational Progress described 4th and 8th grade student reading and math test scores as showing "modest improvement" in 2007 but "stalled improvement" in ...

Students in one Tucson-area school district will take a civics test that Arizona now requires of high school graduates at the end of 8th grade, the Arizona Daily Star reports. Arizona’s legislature ...

Citing the dire economic condition of many schools and states, the College Board will delay launching an eighth-grade assessment test designed to gauge students’ readiness for college. The test had ...