This morning, the District of Columbia released its annual Comprehensive Assessment Score results for the previous school year -- and the news is, well, familiar. more ›

The D.C. State Board of Education will reportedly hold a hearing on April 6 to address allegations that officials at Crosby S. Noyes Education Campus may have tampered with standardized test scores to boost performance ratings. USA Today, who published the investigative report regarding "extraordinarily high numbers of erasures on standardized tests," including a pattern where "wrong answers were erased and changed to right ones," reports today that the Board will request a report of a DCPS investigation into such claims in 2009. more ›

One could argue that the very last thing this city needs at the moment is a blockbuster education scandal -- but it appears as if newly-appointed chancellor Kaya Henderson might have precisely that to deal with. In a must-read story, USA Today's Jack Gillum and Marisol Bello report today that incredible progress at Crosby S. Noyes Education Campus -- a "shining star" of the district which was named a National Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education in 2009 -- may have been bolstered by "extraordinarily high numbers of erasures on standardized tests" including a pattern where "wrong answers were erased and changed to right ones." more ›

A year really flies by, doesn't it? It's been one full year to the day since the the District last reported results from its Comprehensive Assessment System tests, which is given to students in grades 3 through 8 and high school sophomores in order to determine whether or not District of Columbia public schools are meeting mandated progress under federal No Child Left Behind law. more ›

Man, it must stink to be a kid these days, if the Post's lede is to be believed: more ›