Massachusetts used to require a standardized statewide test called the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System, or MCAS, but officials are going back to the drawing board after residents voted ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New Jersey is among just seven states that still require students to pass a test to graduate. (Getty Images) Jill Norton, an ...

A decade-long push by states to make high school students pass an exit exam before getting their diplomas has stalled as politically sensitive student-failure rates contribute to a growing public ...