Roughly 220 students at Garfield High School have opted out of taking a new standardized test called the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, part of federal Common Core curriculum and testing ...

A decade after Connecticut switched to the Smarter Balanced Assessment to measure academic performance, the debate about “over testing,” student anxiety, costs and “teaching to the test” continues.

A state-commissioned investigation has found a “preponderance of evidence” suggesting that a Connecticut principal “intentionally manipulated” student answers on standardized tests, according to a ...

SEATTLE -- Amid the growing number of parents who are having their students "opt out" of the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) tests, at one Seattle elementary school not a single student ...

SEATTLE -- The teachers and parents gathered in the Seattle NAACP office Tuesday afternoon represent the growing "Opt-Out" movement against the new state required standardized test - a test that the ...

A problem with the state’s testing provider has again delayed the Smarter Balanced exams just as the window to administer the new computer-based exams was scheduled to open Wednesday. The indefinite ...

The Smarter Balanced field tests for Darien students are ready to roll out come spring, and gone are the days of taking tests with pencils. However, test results from the field tests will not be ...

In 2015, the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) replaced the Connecticut Mastery Test (CMT) and Connecticut Academic Performance Test (CAPT) in both English language arts/literacy (ELA) and ...

As you are aware, SBAC (Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium) testing will begin in the Westport Public Schools later this month. This letter is not to debate the appropriateness of this testing or ...

This year, students will be taking these tests "for real." I am choosing to opt my child out of the SBAC testing. There are many reasons you might choose to do this: teacher evaluations, creating a ...