One of the two-state consortia behind new, Common Core-aligned tests has released questions from its spring assessments.

Test scores for the first year of testing under the new standards were dismal across the state. Only 31 percent of third through eighth grade students passed the math and English language arts exams .

A sample of about 600,000 public and private school students in fourth and eighth grade took the reading and math exams in 2019. Their results were released Wednesday.

More than half the students who take the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium test are expected to fall below the cutoffs for grade-level proficiency in English/language arts and mathematics.

Test scores from local districts on grades 3 through 8 Common Core math tests stayed above the state average for the 2015-16 school year in local districts, but the region did not do quite as well ...

Monroe County, N.Y. - Students across New York State began taking the Common Core tests Tuesday. The state's English Language Arts (ELA) and Math assessments for students in third through eighth ...