Reports: Test scores, grades don't jibe
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Large percentages of high school seniors are posting weak scores on national math and reading tests even though more of them are taking challenging courses and getting higher grades in school, two reports released Thursday show.
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Touch-screen voting machines likely performed properly and were not to blame for the large number of undervotes in a congressional race in 2006, as the loser has suggested, federal investigators said in a draft report obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press.
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The national test of student math skills is filled with easy questions, raising doubts about recent gains in achievement tests, a study contends.
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The Department of Education is showing new leniency on Bush's tough school standards. But the tests aren't going away
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By The Daily Oklahoman  Jun. 8--REPORT cards have become a fave way for advocacy groups to compare states or grade lawmakers on various issues. The idea is to put things in a format everyone can understand. Rather than a numerical ranking, a letter grade is given.
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The Nation's Report Card shows U.S. students are improving slightly in math, but less so in reading
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By Scott D. Pierce Deseret Morning News  Jeff Foxworthy was a pretty good student -- an "A and B" kind of guy when he was in school.  And yet he always seemed to get attention for something other than his academic achievements. "I think every single report card I had ...
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Large percentages of high school seniors are posting weak scores on national math and reading tests even though more of them are taking challenging courses and getting higher grades in school, say two new government reports released Thursday.
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College football teams headed for the five major bowls this year performed better academically on the whole than the national average, according to a study released yesterday.
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Schools have improved since Tony Blair became prime minister but it is hard to say by how much, a report says.
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GCSE results have shown the biggest increase in top grades since 1999. Is the GCSE still a valid qualification? Send us your comments.
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The Princeton Review&#39;s release this week of its annual &quot;The Best 357 Colleges&quot; guidebook holds good news and not-so-good news for a few Long Island colleges, renewing complaints that the book&#39;s method for ranking colleges is mysterious ...
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Eighth-grade students in the United States scored better in both mathematics and science last year than in 1999, but still lagged their peers in a number of other industrial countries, according
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The average SAT scores for the Class of 2004 were unchanged from the year before, although some minority groups made modest improvements.
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The most physically fit group of third-, fourth- and fifth-graders tend to score highest on an academic test known as the Illinois Standard Achievement Test, a group of researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign reports.
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Elementary and middle-school students are making across-the-board gains in math and more modest progress in reading, national test results out Tuesday show.
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Students who rely on all-nighters to bring up their grades might want to sleep on that strategy: A new survey says those who never study all night have slightly higher GPAs than those who do