If there’s an SAT exam in your future or that of your child, don’t worry about scrounging up a perfectly sharpened No. 2 pencil. You have outlived the paper era of the college entrance exam. Starting ...

Thinkstock photo / Last year, students in Hamilton County tested below the state average in nine of the 10 tested TCAP categories by as much as 16.7 percentage points, results show. Tennessee students ...

In this piece, senior staff columnist Sierra O’Neil examines whether old-fashioned exams in college are truly the best way to gauge knowledge and success.

Students who took the 2014-15 PARCC exams via computer tended to score lower than those who took the exams with paper and pencil—a revelation that prompts questions about the validity of the test ...