This newspaper had reported extensively on cheating, but hadn’t dug deeply into a more basic question: Just how good are the exams used to make critical decisions in schools? No one, it turned out, ...

Kuehn also said it's too early to say how any of the cases affected by breath test errors will play out. "It depends on a lot of different factors — how many cases there are, what the facts of each ...

During a tutoring session last December Jennifer Mueller, a high school student in Whitman, Mass., came up with a second correct answer for a question on the state's high school exit exam -- an answer ...

On July 19, the same day a buggy CrowdStrike update caused widespread IT outages, the cybersecurity company's founder and CEO George Kurtz issued an apology — a mea culpa that was unique for its ...

In order to measure the mechanical properties of materials in compression, tension, bending or torsion, a universal testing machine is utilized. This article outlines the two different types ...

FEC (forward error correction), a critical component of many modern digital-communications applications, turns otherwise-unusable links into real and practical ...

Remember that study last week that showed how district-mandated tests take far more time away from students’ and teachers’ schedules than state tests do? It turns ...