Assessment is a ubiquitous part of classroom life. Most exchanges between teacher and students are an occasion for considering the quality of student work. Often informal, assessment is a natural ...

Teachers have been quitting the profession, saying that the testing regime is crowding out the joy of learning and suffocating classroom creativity and innovation. How can we prevent talented and ...

When I was assigned to be a Washington correspondent in 1994, I chose to move my young family to the Northern Virginia suburb of Fairfax for a single reason: It had one of the best public school ...

When I became president of the California State Board of Education in 1975 for the first of two stints in this role (1975–82), three different offices created state curriculum frameworks, ...

Backers of new learning standards for young children urged Louisiana's top school board to give the changes final approval despite ongoing criticism that the benchmarks need more public input. Jan ...

MOUNT VERNON, Va. — The historic estate of George Washington hosted a modern day debate over the subject of history in schools Tuesday - not just what to teach, but how. An overflow crowd showed up to ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Airasian, P. W. ( 1991). Classroom assessment. New York: McGraw Hill. American ...

When I was assigned to be a Washington correspondent in 1994, I chose to move my young family to the northern Virginia suburb of Fairfax for a single reason: It had one of the best public-school ...