Elementary and middle school students in Los Angeles Unified will not take the state’s Smarter Balanced standardized tests in English language arts and math this spring, district officials said on ...

Students at McKinley Elementary had a variety of reactions to a computer-based assessment they took Tuesday. Some marched through it, jotting notes on scratch paper. Others were flummoxed by ...

For the second year in a row, most Los Angeles Unified students — with the exception of 11th graders — won’t be taking the Smarter Balanced standardized test that’s usually mandated by the state each ...

SOONER THIS DATA IS RELEASED, THE BETTER. WE’VE BEEN WORKING REALLY HARD TO GET IT OUT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. LEADERS WITH THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION PROMISING TO PUSH OUT KEY SCHOOL TESTING ...

SACRAMENTO — Results from California's 2022 Smarter Balanced test have revealed that students performed significantly worse than they did before the pandemic. The shift to remote learning was an ...

Changing its earlier position, the California Department of Education will release Smarter Balanced test scores next month and not wait to incorporate them into other data as planned, a department ...

In another measure of the pandemic’s corrosive impact on learning, California students performed significantly worse in 2022 on Smarter Balanced, the state’s standardized test. Fewer than half of ...

For the second year in a row, most Los Angeles Unified students — with the exception of 11th graders — won’t be taking the Smarter Balanced standardized test that’s usually mandated by the state each ...