The city is asking public school principals to consider giving math tests to kindergartners, a proposal that comes amid debate over the growing use of standardized tests nationwide.

The experiment could involve tests as long as 90 minutes and change reading assessments for kindergartners through second-graders in the nation's biggest school system, where Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration has embraced testing. The approach dismays some parents and educators who see it as mechanizing education.

Scores on the SAT college-entrance exam dropped for a second straight year in Georgia, pushing a state that has struggled to rise from the bottom of the rankings back down one place.

Arizona's SAT scores dipped in reading and math for the third straight year, with reading scores hitting their lowest point in at least a decade.

That continues a long-term trend. Most students in North Dakota take the ACT college entrance exam.

New York high school students planning to go college scored slightly lower in the SAT entrance tests last year that they did the year before.

The state's top education official said Montana students continue to score higher than the national average on the annual SAT college entrance exam.

Texas students lost ground on the SAT this year, widening the long-standing gap between them and their counterparts elsewhere in the U.S. State officials noted that more Texas students took the college entrance ...

Students across the state are holding steady on the Washington Assessment of Student Learning test.

SAT scores for the most recent high school graduating class are at the lowest level in nearly a decade.

Florida's 2008 average SAT scores were only slightly better than last year in math and writing but down in reading.

For a second straight year, SAT scores for the most recent high school graduating class remained at the lowest level in nearly a decade, a trend attributed to a record number of students now taking the test.

PORT CLINTON -- Thanks to its students' improved test scores, the Port Clinton City School District received a state rating of effective this year, an upgrade from its continuous improvement designation last ...

As colleges welcome a record number of students this fall, they are taking steps to ensure more students actually complete a degree.

Foreign educational institutions are holding seminars and exhibitions to lure more Chinese youngsters to study abroad.

Enrollment at Missouri State University reaches an all-time record. The university on Monday released its opening-day enrollment for the Springfield campus -- 17,671, up 1.4 percent from last year.

Three of every four Michigan students who should have been in the high school class of 2007 graduated on time, the state says.

Members of the St. Norbert College Class of 2012 moved into their home away from home Thursday, getting settled in the dorms in preparation for the first day of class Monday.

Want to help your kids do better in school this fall? Get them moving. That's the message from a growing field of research linking physical activity with better academic performance.

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Both Loudoun County and the state of Virginia's average ACT scores rose this year to well above the national average.