New test to get into selective CPS high schools is longer, only in English

The district’s eight graders will take the PreACT 9 Secure exam in October instead of the current HSAT. The new test is more ...
Time

‘Learning Recession’: Why Student Test Scores Have Seen a Decade-Long Decline Across the U.S.

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NPR

Kids' test scores began declining way before COVID. These schools are making gains

The pandemic-era backslide in math and reading scores for students across the U.S. was not a sudden catastrophe but the continuation of a brutal, decade-long "learning recession" that began years ...
The Independent

Jon Stewart trolls Trump cognitive test boasts with flashback to embarrassing math fail on Howard Stern show

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
CBC.ca

Mandatory Ontario teacher math test data shows racial, language disparities

Results of a math test teacher candidates in Ontario must pass in order to be certified show striking disparities across language, age and racial groups, the province's teachers' federation says. The ...
Scientific American

AI just got its toughest math test yet. The results are mixed

The verdict, it seems, is in: artificial intelligence is not about to replace mathematicians. That is the immediate takeaway from the “First Proof” challenge—perhaps the most robust test yet of the ...
The New York Times

These Mathematicians Are Putting A.I. to the Test

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they perform. By Siobhan Roberts A few weeks ago, a high school student emailed Martin ...
News Media Blogs

Placement Results for W&L Placement Tests

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USA Today

This might explain why you're not a 'math person.'

Latrenda Knighten has always liked math. As a child, she remembers breezing through timed tests ‒ high speed, low stakes assignments that challenge students to complete a number of simple problems in ...
New York Post

Nearly half of students across NY state fail to make the grade on math, English tests: data

Nearly half of young New Yorkers statewide are still missing the mark on standardized math and English exams, according to newly released data. The state Education Department released its yearly ...
Retail Dive

Amazon tests delivery in half hour or less

Amazon is testing half-hour or quicker deliveries of groceries and household essentials in parts of Seattle and Philadelphia, the e-commerce giant said Monday. The ultra-speedy delivery, dubbed Amazon ...
The Atlantic

‘A Recipe for Idiocracy’

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...