What changes would you make to the AIMS test? "I think that the AIMS test is getting easier every year, because they're getting more kids to pass. What is the point of a standardized test if you're ...

PHOENIX – For the first time, third-graders who fail the reading portion of state-required standardized testing will not advance to fourth grade. Gov. Jan Brewer signed a law in 2010 called Move On ...

The seven-member task force, which will include a principal, a finance officer and a curriculum expert, also will examine whether college-placement exams might be merged with existing AIMS questions ...

PHOENIX — As Valley teachers get ready to start AIMS testing, child behavior experts say there are some things parents can do to help children prepare. “Children have a lot of weight on their ...

Things looked dire last year at high schools across the state. Nearly two-thirds of students in the class of 2006 failed Arizona’s Instrument to Measure Standards on their first try as sophomores.

Earlier today, Gov. Doug Ducey got rid of the requirement to pass the AIMS test in order to graduate high school, and this might have officially ended the beef for now between Ducey and Superintendent ...

Here’s a head-scratcher: While more students than ever passed Arizona’s Instrument to Measure Standards in 2005, Arizona schoolchildren actually lost ground with their peers nationwide in reading, ...