There’s a lot of debate these days about how to define “technology literacy,” but in a couple years, the National Assessment of Educational Progress will take the unusual step of testing students in ...

While working as a long-term substitute teacher in a Cheyenne high school not long ago, retired reading specialist Gay Wilson ...

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The Educational Testing Service is expanding its efforts to measure how savvy students are about technology and about the information that they get online. After unveiling an information-literacy test ...

The recent White House Conference on Global Literacy hosted here by first lady Laura Bush coincided with the rollout of a new international assessment that holds the promise of providing a much more ...

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For some children in Columbus, Ohio, reading assessments don't start in the kindergarten classroom -- they happen first in the doctor's office.

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Candid photograph of students wearing suits sitting at desks taking an exam in a open room with tall windows and chandeliers at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, 1950. (Photo by JHU ...

The Educational Testing Service is expanding its efforts to measure how savvy students are about technology and about the information that they get online. After unveiling an information-literacy test ...