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Here’s What You Need to Know About Online Testing for the ACT and SAT
-LIZ MOORE

Lots of confusion surrounds the progress of online testing. Here are the answers to some questions a [...]

For the ACT and the SAT, Pencils No Longer Required, but Sometimes Necessary
-LIZ MOORE

For the college entrance exams, the online transition proceeds, but it’s complicated. [...]

Building Skills Outside the Classroom With New Ways of Learning
-JOHN HANC

Project-centered approaches to education could eventually make traditional methods as outdated as ch [...]

A Chance for Dropouts, Young and Old, to Go Back to School
-ALINA TUGEND

Numerous programs are available for students who are unable to graduate from traditional schools, bu [...]

Beatrix Hamburg, Barrier-Breaking Scholar, Is Dead at 94
-NEIL GENZLINGER

At Vassar and then at Yale’s Medical School, Dr. Hamburg blazed trails for black women. Then came a [...]

Social Q’s: Is Extra Help Hurting My Friend With Autism?
-PHILIP GALANES

A reader expresses empathy for — but mostly envy of — a peer who receives special testing accommodat [...]

In effort to regain benefits, Howard County school board chair says she is cognitively disabled
-Tim Prudente

Cynthia Vaillancourt of Ellicott City is suing to restore her private disability benefits. [...]

Are schools telling kids they can't have a best friend?
-Valerie Strauss

Are schools telling kids they can't have a best friend?What's actually happening. [...]

Teacher: Why it's so troubling that we allow computers to grade test essays
-Valerie Strauss

Teacher: Why it's so troubling that we allow computers to grade test essays"I used to encourage my students to use the introduction of their AIR test essays to 'wake [...]

Fifth-grader: Legislators should take 'this nuisance that they call a test'
-Valerie Strauss

Fifth-grader: Legislators should take 'this nuisance that they call a test'And other student testing laments. [...]

Computer glitches interrupt standardized testing in states across the country
-Valerie Strauss

Computer glitches interrupt standardized testing in states across the countryIt's testing season for millions of students. [...]

8-year-old arrested after allegedly bringing gun to elementary school
-Sarah Larimer

8-year-old arrested after allegedly bringing gun to elementary schoolAuthorities believe the 8-year-old brought the gun to a Maryland school after he found it in his hom [...]

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