Vermont students will be taking a different standardized test this spring. Students will no longer take the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) and the Vermont Science Assessment (VTSA) ...

SEATTLE -- Amid the growing number of parents who are having their students "opt out" of the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) tests, at one Seattle elementary school not a single student ...

SEATTLE -- The teachers and parents gathered in the Seattle NAACP office Tuesday afternoon represent the growing "Opt-Out" movement against the new state required standardized test - a test that the ...

Public colleges and universities in Washington state have announced that they will use the college-readiness determination from the 11th grade test of the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium in ...

With states increasingly having walked away from the common-core-aligned tests developed by two federally funded consortia—especially at the high school level—one of those assessment groups is looking ...

In response to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on education, Salem-Keizer Public Schools will not administer the Smarter Balanced state assessment this spring, putting the district ...

A decade after Connecticut switched to the Smarter Balanced Assessment to measure academic performance, the debate about “over testing,” student anxiety, costs and “teaching to the test” continues.