Despite being given the choice to opt out because of technical problems, Missoula County Public Schools and several other districts will continue with their Smarter Balanced testing. This is the ...

Montana's Smarter Balanced school test scores showed a slight uptick this spring with a relatively smooth testing process, a far cry from the glitchy debacle of 2015.

State Sen. Paul Farrow has asked state schools Superintendent Tony Evers not to use student test scores from the Smarter Balanced exams for school ratings, sanctions or teacher evaluations. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb. 4—MITCHELL — Emma Plamp and Mitchell Crothers don't exactly look forward to academic tests, but they tend to excel at them.

The second batch of annual results from the Smarter Balanced state test scores was recently released, and while there's still controversy over the test and the Common Core standards that it measures, ...