Now that we know how much states are likely to have to pony up per student for the new PARCC tests (and also Smarter Balanced tests), similar cost questions are being raised about the new ...

It’s been a field-testing frenzy all spring with five separate assessment groups asking school districts and students to test drive the array of new exams they are designing to measure students’ ...

Schoolchildren who are still learning English typically take a federally required test shortly after the winter break that measures their fluency in the language. This school year is far from typical, ...

JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. - Linguists from Joint Base Lewis-McCHord, Wash., the Army National Guard and Reserve units put their foreign language skills to the test during a course that would ...

Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne's administration plans to lower the criteria to pass a test used to measure the English proficiency of students learning English as a second language.

Sailors who speak Italian or Polish now have an opportunity to take the Defense Language Proficiency Test Five (DLPT5) using Web Based Field Testing (WBFT) from Feb. 28 to June 1. Examinees will be ...