An apparent steep drop in seventh-grade test scores has left the Board of Education in a standoff with its testing company. The blame game began a day after board ...

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said Monday that his move to end the so-called social promotion of third-graders and fifth-graders has been so successful that city schools will start holding back ...

THE CORRECT answer should have been: None of the above. City seventh-graders who took high-stakes state exams yesterday were stumped when several questions in their test booklets failed to match the ...

Results of the March 1998 student achievement tests are in, and Harvard School District 50 pupils at every grade level scored above average on the national Stanford 9 test, according to ...