There’s a difference between teaching to the test and developing test-specific thinking that will help students effectively ...

After months of anxiety and planning, students statewide will finally take a new test, the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, or STAAR, starting this week. Teachers have been scrambling ...

Aristotle Circle was a pioneer in the test-prep field when it published the first book on the exam to screen young children for the city's elite private schools, administered by the Educational ...

Excerpted with permission from "Dear Diary Boy: An Exacting Mother, her Free-spirited Son, and Their Bittersweet Adventures in an Elite Japanese School" by Kumiko ...

Among the throngs of weary commuters packed into trains arriving here are hundreds of schoolchildren from nearby Tokyo and surrounding suburbs. Toting blue backpacks with reflective trim, they head ...