At Kraxberger Middle School in Gladstone, P.E. teacher Rob Hill and vice principal Lori Buchanan read through a practice version of the Smarter Balanced test, looking for skills students will need and ...

The state of South Dakota has been administering the Smarter Balanced Assessment since the Spring semester of 2015. Not much has changed since the initial implementation of the tests until this year.

Although Wisconsin students won't be taking the new Smarter Balanced Assessment exams until spring of 2015, area districts have already been preparing for them by doing practice tests. For more ...

For the second year in a row, most Los Angeles Unified students — with the exception of 11th graders — won’t be taking the Smarter Balanced standardized test that’s usually mandated by the state each ...

About 1,000 more high school students recently met minimum California State University academic requirements for admission compared to two years ago here in the Long Beach Unified School District.