This newspaper had reported extensively on cheating, but hadn’t dug deeply into a more basic question: Just how good are the exams used to make critical decisions in schools? No one, it turned out, ...

During a tutoring session last December Jennifer Mueller, a high school student in Whitman, Mass., came up with a second correct answer for a question on the state's high school exit exam -- an answer ...

Remember that study last week that showed how district-mandated tests take far more time away from students’ and teachers’ schedules than state tests do? It turns ...