Recent controversies over Common Core standards have intensified the debate over high-stakes K-12 academic testing that became a national issue with President Bush’s No Child Left Behind Act. Holding ...

Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne's administration plans to lower the criteria to pass a test used to measure the English proficiency of students learning English as a second language.

About 60% of Virginia fourth and eighth who took national standardized tests in 2019 did not reach proficiency standards set by the federal government. Gov. Glenn Youngkin, in using the percentage to ...

French language teaching candidates must demonstrate Advanced Low proficiency to be recommended for licensure. The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) describes the ...

A new bill seeking to require an English proficiency test for people applying for a commercial driver license would “likely ...

All but three Centre County schools surpassed Pennsylvania’s average rate of proficiency on English and math exams.