I SUPPORT the Measures of Academic Progress assessments used in Seattle Public Schools. I have two children, a stepson in elementary school and a daughter in high school, who both have positive ...

All students in Missouri will start taking the state assessment exams next month, and the Kansas City Missouri School District is approaching the tests differently.With the threat of a state takeover ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — All year-long but especially in recent weeks, teachers in Missouri have been prepping and encouraging their students for the Missouri Assessment Program, commonly called the MAP ...

For students, the start of a new school year can feel like a blank slate, a chance to begin anew. This year, however, Seattle students (along with their parents and teachers) can be forgiven for ...

What started as one school’s protest against the MAP test has quickly ignited a storm. First other schools in Seattle started weighing in, then the NAACP and now, in the most striking demonstration of ...

WALKING the same halls once trod by Jimi Hendrix, Quincy Jones, Bruce Lee, Brandon Roy and Macklemore makes teaching at Garfield High School exhilarating. When I look at the students in my history ...

(KFVS) - Missouri student achievement continues to rise as the Missouri Assessment Program (MAP) testing results are released. Test results for 2011-2012 released by the Department of Elementary and ...

The Blair Oaks School District's results from the Missouri Assessment Program, commonly referred to as the MAP test, show the district above the state average in every subject, sometimes by as much as ...