SEATTLE -- Amid the growing number of parents who are having their students "opt out" of the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) tests, at one Seattle elementary school not a single student ...

SEATTLE -- The teachers and parents gathered in the Seattle NAACP office Tuesday afternoon represent the growing "Opt-Out" movement against the new state required standardized test - a test that the ...

A decade after Connecticut switched to the Smarter Balanced Assessment to measure academic performance, the debate about “over testing,” student anxiety, costs and “teaching to the test” continues.

STAMFORD -- While some parents of high school juniors are looking to have their children excused from taking a weeklong standardized test in May, students seem to be taking the imposition of yet ...

During its meeting on October 28, the AUSD Board of Education focused on Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, an annual ...

MANCHESTER — The parents and guardians of nearly 200 city students have refused to let them take the Smarter Balanced assessment test, only one week after the district sent out letters indicating they ...

Darien school administrators are rapidly working to revise the Smarter Balanced testing schedule following a conference call with Commissioner of Education Stefan Pryor this morning. "We were informed ...

MANCHESTER — The number of students whose parents have refused to let them take the Smarter Balanced assessment test has swelled to more than 500 since the district began administering the exam ...

This year, students will be taking these tests "for real." I am choosing to opt my child out of the SBAC testing. There are many reasons you might choose to do this: teacher evaluations, creating a ...