Last week, testing provider NWEA—best known for its district-level MAP Growth exams—came out with a bold new claim: The way states give summative assessments is broken. Its solution, however, was a ...

Assessment and research organization NWEA recently launched a free dashboard tracking national trends and data on U.S. student academic achievement and growth. The tool documents how K–8 students are ...

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Please check your inbox for your confirmation. Every fall for nearly a decade, teacher Kelly Crawford would give her students a standardized test called the NWEA MAP and then try to convince her ...

Houston ISD's state-appointed Board of Managers will receive an update on the district's progress toward its goals on the STAAR exams and the NWEA MAP exam, which the district began administering this ...

A sweeping new review of national test data suggests the pandemic-driven jump to online learning has had little impact on children's reading growth and has only somewhat slowed gains in math. That ...