Standardized tests

College Board investigates what it calls small decline in scores, but larger gaps at some institutions raise questions.

Students' preparation for college and work require the same learning ingredients, ACT report finds, but states are failing the grade.

More liberal arts colleges do away with test requirements; institutions that did so last year see big gains in numbers and diversity.

Presenting powerful new data, a researcher advocates "class based" affirmative action that credits students for overcoming backgrounds.

Lloyd Thacker's reform movement -- previously viewed as too idealistic -- gains support from presidents and foundations. It just might have legs.

Did Baylor law school give U.S. News & World Report bad data to improve its ranking?

As the College Board is finding out, New York State legislators assume that if you promise you will give them a report, you'll give them the report.

The report that led to faxes, press conferences and much legal conferencing on Thursday is an outside study commissioned by the College Board to look into last year's embarrassing scoring errors on the SAT.

College Board releases much-awaited report on scoring errors, but critics say that it doesn't answer the key questions.

ETS faces first real challenge to its test for students seeking to demonstrate English proficiency to American colleges.

Test average sees biggest increase in 20 years, but gaps among racial groups also grow.