Starting last year, Southwest High School students have a new way to measure their progress in English and math. The Northwest Evaluation Association is a test that high-school students take ...

Assessment and research organization NWEA recently launched a free dashboard tracking national trends and data on U.S. student academic achievement and growth. The tool documents how K–8 students are ...

Last week, testing provider NWEA—best known for its district-level MAP Growth exams—came out with a bold new claim: The way states give summative assessments is broken. Its solution, however, was a ...

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According to its website, NWEA's Measures of Academic Progress looks at students' academic performance in math, reading, language usage, and science. Right now, students in the district lose multiple ...