Olivia Munn was very proactive about breast cancer screenings. A 2-minute online test led to her stage 1 diagnosis.

MCA scores help officials know if their school is making progress and help the state identify which schools need support, said Michael Rodriguez, dean of the University of Minnesota’s College of Education and Human Development. Rodriguez is a psychometrician, meaning he looks at the technical side of test development and scoring.

Beginning Jan. 1, the Air Force will pause all physical fitness testing to facilitate the updated program. Tests begin March 1 on the new standards.

Well, after the treatment for transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis has started, our main focus is to look at the progression of the disease. And for that, we use the combination of clinical assessment, various cardiac biomarkers, and cardiac imaging.

Locally, the Bainbridge Island, Central Kitsap, North Kitsap and South Kitsap school districts surpassed the 2025 state average in all three assessment subjects, while Bremerton and North Mason achieved scores below the state average.

Earlier this month the Herald ran a story on the state assessment score results for Cape May County school districts. The results came from the state school performance reports issued by the state Department of Education for the school year 2023-2024.

Jay Reinstein remembers the day he took the cognitive test President Trump keeps bragging about. “One of the questions was to draw a clock at a certain time, and I’m staring at the circle and can’t figure out where the small hand goes,” said ...

The National Assessment Governing Board, which controls NAEP testing, tapped Mark White as its new leader. He is at the center of some of Tennessee’s most heated education debates, including a state takeover of Memphis schools.

Some Western Pennsylvania educators are pushing back on a national report indicating a decline in math and reading test scores among high school seniors. The report, released by the National Center for Education Statistics,

There’s a tension between the state’s responsibility to improve MCAP and its duty to ensure tests are comparable from year to year, teachers say.