Here’s an addition problem for you. Start with this statement in an executive summary prepared by consultants who evaluated the new Florida Standards Assessment ...

Ever since Gov. Jeb Bush instituted the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, or FCAT, in the 1990s, I cheered every time the state of Florida changed its testing program. This time has gotta be ...

No one — educators, parents and even lawmakers — will dispute the spring testing season for Florida students was fraught with pitfalls. Login problems, unsaved answers, being kicked off the web-based ...

Torrie Kearney is stressed out. No, really. The 8th grader at Sanderlin IB World School in south St. Petersburg is "getting kind of nervous" about her upcoming Florida Standards Assessments, an ...

Florida’s new standardized test is a valid, but its debut this spring was “problematic” and schools should not make “critical decisions” about students based solely on results of its computer-based ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – It appears, following Monday's technical glitches, that the Florida Standards Assessment test is running smoothly in both Miami-Dade and Broward County. When Miami-Dade students in ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — With concerns growing among students, teachers, and parents, Florida education officials are giving school districts an extra two weeks to administer the Florida Standards ...

While many Florida students spent the summer at summer camp, watching cartoons or splashing around in a pool, the Florida Department of Education didn’t kick up its feet and relax the way many of the ...

Ever since Gov. Jeb Bush instituted the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, or FCAT, in the 1990s, I cheered every time the state of Florida changed its testing program. This time has gotta be ...