Wednesday was the final day of test-prep boot camp for a group of 11-year-olds preparing to take the Hunter College High School admissions exam.

Most praise the change for replacing mountains of memorization with more sophisticated and creative curriculums, but more objective measurements have been mixed.

Asian and white eighth graders in the city are outpacing their black and Hispanic peers on an admissions test.

Black and Hispanic students lag on the test to enter the city’s top three schools.

Testwell Laboratories was indicted on charges that they failed to perform strength tests and billed clients for work that was never performed.

New York City is beginning to measure the performance of thousands of elementary-school teachers based on how much their students improve on math and reading tests.

New York City is beginning to measure the performance of thousands of elementary-school teachers based on how much their students improve on math and reading tests.

Teachers and principals at five failed schools earned cash bonuses for their successes on standardized tests, which officials explained largely as a question of short-term versus long-term goals.

A week before a new civics test is introduced as part of the naturalization process, a senior immigration official sought to calm critics who say it will be harder than the current one.

How could a red-hot school in Brooklyn Heights — with surging enrollment, with test scores that are above average, and with extras paid for by parents’ fund-raisers — be declared a failure?