This post is by Elizabeth Leisy Stosich, Research and Policy Fellow at the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE). There is widespread agreement that test-based accountability ...

At what an attendee described as one of the milder governing board meetings this year, PARCC’s K-12 and higher education leaders continued their work to define career readiness and agree on ...

In education and assessment, we use the word “standards” in a number of ways: curriculum standards, standards-based assessments, performance standards. Performance standards—also known as proficiency ...