I SUPPORT the Measures of Academic Progress assessments used in Seattle Public Schools. I have two children, a stepson in elementary school and a daughter in high school, who both have positive ...

Seattle Public Schools Superintendent José Banda directed administrators at Garfield High School to give the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) test Tuesday despite a mass boycott by the school’s ...

All students in Missouri will start taking the state assessment exams next month, and the Kansas City Missouri School District is approaching the tests differently.With the threat of a state takeover ...

For students, the start of a new school year can feel like a blank slate, a chance to begin anew. This year, however, Seattle students (along with their parents and teachers) can be forgiven for ...

What started as one school’s protest against the MAP test has quickly ignited a storm. First other schools in Seattle started weighing in, then the NAACP and now, in the most striking demonstration of ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — All year-long but especially in recent weeks, teachers in Missouri have been prepping and encouraging their students for the Missouri Assessment Program, commonly called the MAP ...

Teachers protesting the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) tests in Seattle won a big victory Monday, as Superintendent José Banda announced that high schools don’t have to give the tests after this ...