Susan Headden had an important article in the September/October issue of the Monthly running down the problem with community colleges’ high-stakes placement tests, which often wrongly assign ...

Arlington Heights The placement test for 8th-grade students interested in attending St. Viator High School will be given at 8 to 11:30 a.m. on Jan. 13. Pupils wishing to take the test should bring … ...

Supporters of the new law hope that districts will apply the same principles of fairness and objectivity they will implement for 9 th grade under the new law in whatever grades placement decisions are ...

The STAAR test results for this year will still count toward school accountability, it just will no longer decide if a student passes or fails the 5th or 8th grade.

No. Students who take a CU precalculus course and earn a grade below C-, including students who receive a grade of W, must retake the course in order to qualify for Calculus 1; they are not eligible ...

English Course Placement Students who have not earned credit for English Composition (EH 101) with a grade of C or better must take the English Placement Survey and Writing Sample. Exceptions Minimum ...

Regardless of placement, ELL newcomers scored significantly lower than the district average on standardized tests: at the 33rd percentile in math and the 20th percentile in reading.