test scores

The number of students who scored lower on exams than their homework jumped by more than 40% between 2008 and 2017, according to research done at Rutgers University.

If a state Department of Education proposal is adopted as expected, 10 percent of the performance evaluation for teachers in the fourth through eighth grades would be based on standardized test scores in the 2014-15 school year.

The percentage of black and lower-income students passing New Jersey's major state high school test is rising even as progress has largely stagnated for white, Asian and higher-income students.