NAPERVILLE — At first blush, the third-grade classrooms at Prairie Elementary look any other classroom in the school with students, teachers, desks, tables, chairs, cabinets and white boards. What ...

Standardized testing is at the heart of most issues regarding education and is a billion-dollar industry. The main benefit of testing is providing an efficient way to rank and sort students, but there ...

Every Friday since December, my kids head to school and do the same thing as thousands of other kids in San Antonio: They administer their own COVID-19 tests. Under the watchful eye of teachers and ...

Coming of age in the 1970s and 1980s, I thought of school as a parallel universe. There was school life, which happened between the hours of 8 a.m. and 3 p.m., and there was real life, which was ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Focusing on SATs, LSATs or even the bar exam seems unthinkable today as the world grapples ...

The 5-year-olds and 6-year-olds at Soaring Heights Elementary School in Joplin did not have an assigned class for the first few days of the semester. Instead, they all interacted with all three ...

Let’s not forget that the working world largely does not function like an exam — so why should we  let a student's overall ...