The American Bar Association (ABA) has given approval to a new law school entrance exam, JD-Next, developed by the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. This move brings JD-Next in line with the LSAT and GRE as accepted metrics for law school admissions. For now, the ABA’s endorsement is exclusively for Arizona Law applicants, but Marc Miller,
Brooklyn schools show big gains on 2025 state tests, with top ELA and math scores at P.S. 11, P.S. 172, P.S. 8, and more.
National test results released in September 2022 show unprecedented losses in math and reading scores since the pandemic disrupted schooling for millions of children. In
New York City schools will shed many of its COVID prevention strategies from the past two years, according to new education department guidance posted Tuesday
New York City is planning to end its program to administer weekly coronavirus tests to a random sample of students, Chalkbeat has learned, removing one
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on Tuesday that the state Department of Health has developed a test for serum antibodies to the novel coronavirus, “which means you’re no longer contagious and
Twenty schools in Brooklyn will roll out new tests for third and sixth graders that the city will use to measure school performance and gauge where more resources are needed,
During an emotional, five-hour City Council hearing on high-stakes testing, education advocates spoke out against the notion of “teaching to the test” and called on the city to help rebalance
A Brooklyn school district saw more students opt out of state exams for the 2017-18 school year than any other district in the city, Department of Education data shows. New
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to get rid of admissions tests for the city’s top high schools has been approved by the Assembly’s Education Committee, but the proposal is scoring
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Despite an ongoing battle with overcrowding, District 20 elementary and middle schools have out-scored the city on the 2015 Common Core-aligned State English Language Arts (ELA) and math exams, according
Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña has announced that the decision over whether or not students in the third through eighth grades move to the next grade will no longer be based solely on standardized state exams for English and math. Instead, tests will be one of several factors used in determini …
Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña has announced that the decision over whether or not students in the third through eighth grades move to the next grade will no longer be based solely on standardized state exams for English and math. Instead, tests will be one of several factors used in determini …
Theres going to be a change in the way gifted and talented students will be placed into middle school in District 20, beginning with current fifth graders who would be advancing in September, 2014.
Going forward, OLSAT test scores for the past several years a component of assessing whe …There’s going to be a change in the way gifted and talented students will be placed into middle school in District 20, beginning with current fifth graders who would be
The results of the new Common Core state-issued standardized tests are in – and they’re not that pretty. Citywide, students in grades three through eight scored an average of 296
Its perfection for this modest Xaverian junior.
Michael Darby, 16, scored a 2400 on his SAT exam, making him one of the 360 students who took the college admissions test in 2012 to receive the highest possible score. That puts him in the 99.98th percentile out of the 1,664,479 …
District 20s Community Education Council unanimously passed a resolution on May 23 supporting parents concerns about New York States stand-alone field tests.
The field tests are assigned to third through twelfth graders throughout the state, at different times throughout the months o …