COLUMBIA, S.C. (WSPA)—As students across South Carolina in grades 3 through 8 take the SC Ready standardized test starting Tuesday, an education professor at the University of South Carolina says, “We ...

Doctors are “overtesting” men for prostate cancer and not targeting “those most likely to benefit,” researchers have warned. This type of testing remains controversial because it has led to an ...

After years of outcry and intensifying public debate about whether students are overtested, many states are attempting to definitively address the issue this year. But there’s no consistent strategy ...

Three state exams could be eliminated as part of an ongoing effort to reduce the amount of testing being given to North Carolina public school students. State Department of Public Instruction ...

Anyone who's had a health scare, no matter how benign, knows the visceral feeling of confusion, anxiety and, in most cases, abject cluelessness. It's that cluelessness that's particularly nagging: A ...

In tennis parlance, I had my friend Stewart on a yo-yo, pushing the ball from side to side, front to back, forcing him into ever more desperate, lung-searing wind sprints just to stay in the point. On ...

Schoolchildren no doubt are just focused on getting through the next test, standardized or not. But when it comes to last week’s dismal statewide scores on the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness ...

Ninety percent of physicians surveyed said doctors overtest and overtreat to protect themselves from malpractice lawsuits. That sentiment is more common among male doctors than female doctors, ...

Editor’s Note: Education Week Commentary editors asked seven education practitioners and leaders to respond to the White House’s “Testing Action Plan” and a coinciding Council of the Great City ...

Patients' demands drive overtesting, too. Many think every ache and pain deserves a high-tech test. "Our society puts more weight on technology than on physical exams," Gardner said. "In other words, ...

Limiting orders for gamma glutamyl transferase, an enzyme most commonly found in the liver, tests to only be made from the EHR search engine rather than from lists on the system’s main screen can ...