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Think Computers Can Replace Humans as Test Graders? Think Again.
A computerized essay reader ‘doesn’t care if you say the War of 1812 started in 1945’, criticizes one reviewer.
The Case of the ‘Talking Pineapple,’ the Reading-Comprehension Test Stumper
For those far removed from it, let’s briefly relive standardized testing day. Remember how, for hours on end, you’d flip through a drab gray packet of reading comprehension questions, stare at several paragraphs of nonsense and …
Class Notes: Law School, Student Loans and More Education News
Each week, we fill you in on the goings on in the education world, everything from pre-K to higher ed.
Pop Quiz: D.C. Public Schools Put Sex Education to the Test
Controversy over standardized testing has popped up again in Washington. But this time it’s the subject matter that has been called into question.
Investigation Finds ‘Widespread’ Cheating in Atlanta Schools
At least 178 teachers and principals at nearly four dozen schools in Atlanta have been implicated in what is likely the largest cheating scandal in U.S. history to date.