In fact, chasing test scores, especially invalid ones like the SBAC, prepares kids for a completely different era, one that vanished decades ago. Automation, artificial intelligence, robotics, and big ...

Nevada’s use of the Smarter Balanced test—one of the major providers of tests measuring the Common Core State Standards—has met all of the U.S. Department of Education’s requirements for grades 3-8.

With states increasingly having walked away from the common-core-aligned tests developed by two federally funded consortia—especially at the high school level—one of those assessment groups is looking ...