Town students produced mixed results on the latest Connecticut Mastery Test, and school officials were scratching their heads to explain why. The good news is that sixth- and eighth-grade writing and ...

If all goes as planned, the Connecticut Mastery Test, bubbled in with pencil on paper, will become a relic of the past in two years, replaced by a new, more customized online testing system. By the ...

A test given to more than 250,000 Connecticut students shows they're generally making academic progress, but that low-income children and students for whom English is a second language still lag ...

English-language learners in Denver Public Schools are outpacing the rest of the state on tests that measure how well they know the language. Denver’s students improved 8 percentage points over last ...

Connecticut's black and Hispanic students continue to narrow the academic achievement gap with double-digit percentage improvements in math and reading skills over the last few years, according to ...

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