Standards and Testing

Local schools will have more flexibility in meeting federal education standards under a waiver issued Thursday by the Obama administration to Massachusetts and nine other states.

Newly proposed state math standards shift a lot of what's taught in grades 6-8 down to grades 3-5 - which would require the learning of core algebraic concepts earlier.

The Obama administration has given 10 states a waiver from the federal law known as No Child Left Behind – once a bipartisan hope to raise education standards, but now generally regarded as too cumbersome and draconian. President Barack Obama announced

WASHINGTON - Ten states now have President Barack Obama's OK to scrap one of the most rigorous and unpopular mandates in American education — that all students measure up in reading and math by 2014. In exchange, the states had to promise they would

Ten states now have President Barack Obama's OK to scrap one of the most rigorous and unpopular mandates in American education — that all students measure up in reading and math by 2014. In exchange, the states had to promise they would raise standa