DECATUR - The Illinois Standards Achievement Tests aren't as horrible as Tyler Koltveit sometimes imagines. "They're just bad," said Tyler, 10, a fifth-grader at Enterprise School. His mother, Kara ...

SCOTT COUSINS PHOTO Mylesia James (left), Breonna Harris, Jazmine Williams, Bre-Nae Newell, and Deju' Bates wait for a question while playing a game in teacher Joe Carrington's class during "ISAT ...

Third- through eighth-graders across the state will take the Illinois Standards Acheivement Tests this week to see if their skills are up to state standards. Many local schools are holding events to ...

SPRINGFIELD — School districts may not be getting results from state testing until after classes start this year. School officials will be starting the new school year without knowing if the district ...

MOLINE — The Moline school district hopes a change in the creators of a state-mandated test reduces a scoring drop between the fifth and eighth grades. Robert Dyer, the district's director of ...

There was once a time when the success of a school building, its teachers and its students was measured by a combination of factors, including report card grades, graduation rates and a child's ...

As local students wrap up ISAT testing, the Idaho State Department of Education is letting parents know about an interactive website with information about state tests and their child’s performance.

Despite delays in getting all of the necessary Illinois Standards Achievement Test materials, many south suburban elementary school districts plan to begin testing their students Monday. A check of ...

While the Idaho State Board of Education met Wednesday afternoon to consider dropping the winter round of ISAT testing, teachers at Filer Middle School were creating a different proposal. A petition ...