The UFT will continue to advocate to end the policy of distributive scoring of Regents exams.

New York City students made small but significant gains on state math and English language arts tests in 2015, the third year of tests aligned with the Common Core Learning Standards.

Despite a $13 million advertising campaign, hedge-fund executives were unable to engineer the passage of an education tax credit for wealthy donors or an increase in the statewide charter cap in the state legislative session that wrapped up on June...

U.S. students scored in the middle of the pack among the 44 countries and regions participating in the first-ever international assessment of students’ creative problem-solving skills.

Michelle Rhee's record under scrutiny, new science standards, and other news from around the country.

The UFT calls on the Panel for Educational Policy to put test scores into perspective as one among many measures of a child’s ability and progress and to focus instead on improving curriculum and ensuring that teachers and schools get the support and...

The UFT calls for a moratorium on attaching high-stakes consequences to state tests until representatives of all interested parties — including parents and educators — have worked with members of Congress, the state Legislature, the state...