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Collaboration lies at the heart of LAUSD’s test score gains
Students in a Los Angeles Unified School District classroom. Credit: Los Angeles Unified / X Top Takeaways L.A. Unified’s CAASPP […]
October 20, 2025
Despite test score gains, California students still lag behind pre-pandemic levels
Students in a Fresno Unified School District classroom. Credit: Fresno Unified / Flickr Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo […]
October 9, 2025
Commentary: California’s learning recovery efforts show promising results
Credit: Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for EDUimages Today’s release of California’s test score data from the 2024-25 school year provides […]
October 9, 2025
How to describe middling and poor test scores? State Board frets over the right words
Ending several months of uncertainty, the California State Board of Education on Wednesday chose new labels to describe how students […]
March 6, 2025
How Compton Unified boosted its standardized test scores
Ask anyone what they know about Compton, California. Related Reading New Stanford database tracks learning loss, gain in California and […]
February 11, 2025
State Board criticized for soft-pedaling reporting on low student test scores
Clarity matters when explaining to parents how their children did on standardized tests. An imprecise characterization of a complicated score can […]
December 2, 2024
Statewide test scores improved in 2024, but achievement still not back to pre-Covid levels
California students made some progress toward regaining their pre-Covid levels of achievement with incremental increases in English language arts, math […]
October 10, 2024
Understanding California’s test scores could hold the key to student improvement
As states across the nation release their annual data from tests administered to students in the 2023-24 school year, we’re […]
October 10, 2024