The exams were intended to test student achievement in math. After a disastrous performance last school year by middle and high school students, the “common semester assessments” have become a test in ...

More than half of city school kids still can’t handle basic math or English, even though this year’s state exams scores ticked up slightly, according to state data released Thursday. While state ...

Sample questions from test measuring basic thinking skills Tests are taken on a laptop computer in the test-taker%27s home Literacy%2C math%2C problem-solving are the areas measured by the tests These ...