The test Arlington County will be using has been flagged by the FDA for producing false negatives, but some epidemiologists still say it’s useful to offer more testing options now.

White students are the only demographic that saw a decline in the annual evaluation.

A new report from a veteran education reporter claims that former D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee knew about widespread cheating on standardized tests and didn’t do enough to investigate it.

As D.C. officials continue trying to turn around the city’s public school system, they had some good news to share yesterday—the annual Comprehensive Assessment System found that public school students saw increases in math and science, though gains in reading remained flat.

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

On Friday, this editor posted a video of students and teachers at E.L. Haynes Public Charter School bustin’ out some hot rhymes about dominating the District’s Comprehensive Assessment Test, which D.C. students are taking this week. I stated that it was “the best song ever composed” about the test, “in that it’s probably the first.” I could not have been more wrong. Because CAS raps are officially a thing.

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.

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.”

Photo by lovedc. 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. This morning, Mayor Adrian Fenty, flanked by Deputy…

Man, it must stink to be a kid these days, if the Post’s lede is to be believed: Schools have reduced recess, cut back on physical education and done away with field trips. Now spring break could be the next target as some educators try to find more teaching time to accommodate testing requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind law. This coming from the report that the school board in Maryland’s Howard County…