There’s a difference between teaching to the test and developing test-specific thinking that will help students effectively ...

Here comes another standardized testing season with all the administrator anxiety, teacher turmoil and student disaffection. So much of it that, at least in high schools, those mass assessments do as ...

Rooks is the chair of the Africana Studies department at Brown University. She is the author of six books including Integrated: How American Schools Failed Black Children. Do standardized achievement ...