Testing

The College Board plans to score a student's adversity from one to 100.

When we prioritize speed on the SAT, we discriminate against poor or disabled students—while we discount the importance of slower, deeper thinking.

Candidates cheer for themselves before sitting the National College Entrance Examination (a.k.a. Gaokao) outside an exam site on June 7th, 2018.

New research is working toward creating simple physical tests that could shed light on diseases like anxiety and depression.

How different states stack up in promoting early literacy.

In 2014, the GED Testing Service rolled out a new assessment meant to measure not just high school equivalency but also career- and college-readiness skills. The questions below are designed to be very similar to those you might find on a GED exam today.

Common Core and big business have combined to make the lot of the upwardly mobile high school dropout even more dire.

An early look at a Pacific Standard story that's currently only available to subscribers.

Asians are nearly twice as likely to get a higher price from the Princeton Review's SAT test prep services.

Genetic tests are becoming increasingly common, but a major medical organization argues that we should be cautious about testing children.

Plus, the insane ways people still use virginity tests today.

There has to be a better way.

It's sort of like summer camp—just for highly educated adults.

The short answer is, pretty well. But that’s not really the point.

Research from Canada finds high-performing students do even better if they are enrolled in ongoing music classes.

New research suggests the reason has more to do with the sort of student who decides to study music than any brain-boosting benefits of lessons.

New research finds a mere two weeks of mindfulness training leads to improved scores in tests of reading comprehension and working memory.

How the education reform agenda takes its cues from bad management philosophy—and ignores what actually works in business