The California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory, headquartered on the UC Davis campus, is key to the state’s effort to track and prevent bird flu as it spreads through cattle herds and poultry ...

A decade after Connecticut switched to the Smarter Balanced Assessment to measure academic performance, the debate about “over testing,” student anxiety, costs and “teaching to the test” continues.

Parents who value grades over test scores could be missing out on a key indicator their child needs more support – and raises the possibility students are graduating without necessary skills, a new ...

The battle over standardized testing came roaring back to life last week, nearly four years after COVID-19 forced most institutions to temporarily eschew testing requirements. The New York Times led ...