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.

A state-commissioned investigation has found a “preponderance of evidence” suggesting that a Connecticut principal “intentionally manipulated” student answers on standardized tests, according to a ...

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 ...

Roughly 220 students at Garfield High School have opted out of taking a new standardized test called the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, part of federal Common Core curriculum and testing ...

The Smarter Balanced field tests for Darien students are ready to roll out come spring, and gone are the days of taking tests with pencils. However, test results from the field tests will not be ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. - The Bozeman schools superintendent plans to scale back standardized tests that are part of Common Core. We've been following problems with the Smarter Balanced Assessment. It tests ...