Corrected: This story originally gave an incorrect first name for the spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania Department of Education. She is Beth Gaydos. Could a computer really be a good judge of student ...

In the future, computers will be our doctors, our soldiers, our firefighters and our teachers. They’ll diagnose diseases, nurture our babies, protect our homes and teach our kids. One company is ...

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The State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, known as STAAR , are a series of state-mandated standardized tests used in Texas schools to assess a student’s achievements and knowledge. Diane ...

As you know if you teach at a U.S. public school – or even if you just read the June 2013 New York Times feature about it – a consortium of state boards of education recently decided that we should ...

Two recent high tech innovations will undoubtedly impact education and learning. These are the minding-reading devices and computer- (robo-) grading of essay tests. It is generally believed that about ...

Texas students’ written responses on the STAAR test will most likely be scored by a computer, rather than a person. Ben Sklar / The New York Times Texas students’ written responses on the STAAR test ...