Who helped themselves most? Grading my top 25 NFL Draft prospects at the combine

The NFL Scouting Combine is in the books. Let the jockeying for first-round positioning commence. Unfortunately, with so many ...
WRAL

Fact check: McCrory overstates 3rd grade test ramifications

Former North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory is sounding the alarm about how remote learning may affect students long-term. McCrory, who’s running for U.S. Senate, talked about third-grade reading scores on ...
Railway Age

Grade Crossing Collision Testing at the TTC

TTC OPERATED BY ENSCO, RAILWAY AGE APRIL 2025 ISSUE: Every day, trains collide with people or vehicles an average of eight times across the U.S. According to the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), ...

5 ways to be ready when spring 2026 IREAD testing window opens March 2

The first testing window opens March 2, but students will have multiple opportunities to take the test throughout the spring and summer.
The New York Times

Texas Says Most of Its Students Aren’t Reading at Grade Level. But Are Its Tests Fair?

MESQUITE, Tex. — Reading is 9-year-old Kristen Hernandez’s thing. She pores over mystery books, stories about vampires and even a college-level anatomy textbook that her mother is studying to become ...
WTVD

North Carolina parents, education advocates frustrated with end of grade tests

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Despite an unusual school year, parents, teachers and students experienced a bit of normalcy in the last few weeks: end-of-grade standardized tests. The tests, administered to ...
WNCT

Online Originals: Local parents ‘chalking it up’ for students ahead of EOG testing

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) — End-of-grade testing has started for Pitt County Public Schools. Wednesday night, local parents with Parents for Public Schools of Pitt County got together to spread words of ...
Today

At-home genetic testing for cancer and other disease risk is booming: Should you try it?

Breast Cancer Awareness Month will cause many women to worry about their hereditary risk for developing the disease, especially if it runs in their family. Genetic testing can answer that piece of the ...
Asheville Citizen-Times

Buncombe County Schools end-of-grade testing returns; lower scores predicted as teachers weigh in

Local schools anticipate students will not perform as well as usual in state testing due to the COVID-19 pandemic’s weighty strain on education. Buncombe County Schools Director of Testing Steve ...
EDN

Testing space-grade processors for data compression

Efficient data compression and transmission are crucial in space missions due to restricted resources, such as bandwidth and storage capacity. This requires efficient data-compression methods that ...
West Virginia MetroNews

Statewide student test scores still low but reading in early grades shows modest increase in proficiency

Assessment results from tests given to school kids last spring were released Wednesday during the state Board of Education meeting in Charleston. The annual assessment results measure proficiency in ...