The State Board of Education is moving forward with plans to add the state’s science assessment to the California School Dashboard, making it a new piece of the statewide school accountability system.

The abysmal performance of students on the state science test is just another artifact of a failed K-12 Education system. Additional artifacts have been recently highlighted in EdSource include ...

Science requirements vary widely from state to state. As of last summer, 37 states and the District of Columbia required students to take three or more years of science in high school.

Over the past two years, hundreds of thousands of students across the state have refused to take the state’s tests. But for the latest round of testing last week – science exams for grades 4 ...