Georgia’s current writing exam for high schoolers may soon be history. State education department officials unveiled a proposal Wednesday to phase out the exam in favor of annual writing assessments ...

Standardized testing has long been a part of the public school system. While there have been arguments made against students needing to take them, there hasn't been a significant shift in their use.

In 1977, long before most of today’s college students were born, Old Dominion University President Alfred Rollins declared in an address to the faculty that too many ODU graduates were unable to write ...

Based on new data from the “nation’s report card,” a lot of U.S. students are not “proficient” in writing, and the issue is especially alarming for black and Hispanic students. See my colleague Nora ...