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The rollout of a high school graduation requirement tied to a demanding new science test could be delayed for at least two more years, following a preliminary vote of the Maryland State School Board Tuesday.

Six public schools were named Maryland Blue Ribbon Schools, an award given to the state’s highest performing schools.

The 10 Laurel public schools located in Prince George’s County received three or four stars out of five in the state’s new education rankings unveiled last week.

The Howard County School System is not focusing on each of its schools stars, rather the school itself.

A new rating of Maryland schools puts poor schools at a disadvantage by putting so much weight on standardized test scores.

Nearly half of Howard County’s schools came out with top ratings in the state’s new education rankings, part of a federal accountability system that grades all public schools based on test scores as well as measures such as graduation rates and achievement of English language learners.

Howard County schools were above the state average on all PARCC assessments. Going forward, however, Maryland is looking to replace the test with another that aligns to the Common Core standards and is a shorter exam, an official from Howard County School System says.

People in Maryland should celebrate that the state is going to abandon the PARCC standardized test. But it will not improve public education or satisfy critics of standardized testing. The only way to improve public education in Maryland is to replace the Common Core standards.

Dumbing down tests will only get us dumbed-down student performance.

Maryland has good reasons to abandon the PARCC exam, but whatever it replaces the test with should be just as rigorous.

Maryland's State School Superintendent has decided to ditch the test it has given for the past four years.

Anyone running for governor ought to pledge to rid Maryland of its horrible standardized tests.

After years of stagnation, Baltimore City shows encouraging growth in math and English test scores in 2018.

Carroll County Public Schools was again one of the top perform school districts in Maryland on the PARCC tests.

The concept, unveiled at the last Board of Education work session by new Superintendent Steven Lockard, would be used both internally and externally. Internally, it will help CCPS track and monitor data, and help tie that information the strategic plan.

Bringing Baltimore area schools into digital age is not an easy chore.

Four years after the Maryland State Department of Education began requiring the state’s public schools to give students the PARCC tests, some teachers remain concerned that the online version is helping to widen an achievement gap they’ve spent decades working to close.

Hiring more mayoral staff or busing kids to D.C. protest is a poor use of limited money.

Gov. Larry Hogan could untangle Baltimore County Public Schools officials from their technology quagmire by simply eliminating the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers  testing (PARCC) they use to justify their obsession with one-to-one devices.

West Towson Elementary became the newest Towson school to be named a Maryland Blue Ribbon School Tuesday for its high performance on statewide assessments but despite being honored by the title, principal Sue Hershfeld said earning the distinction is an expected outcome.

Waterloo Elementary School in Columbia was one of six schools in the state to receive the state Department of Education's 2017-2018 Blue Ribbon award.

Uproar over computers in Baltimore County classrooms is well justified.

Six schools were named Maryland blue ribbon schools, an honor awarded to the state’s highest performing schools or those that have made significant progress.

This year, West Towson and five other Maryland schools were selected in the category of exemplary high-achieving school for scoring in the top 15 percent of all Maryland schools on the 2017 Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers assessments.

Harford County Public Schools officials present data on student achievement on standardized test in the 2016-2017 school year to the Board of Education Monday.

Where's the evidence for PARCC test's claim to predict student success?

Two public comments and a handful of tweets and emails made up the level of public participation in HCPS Superintendent Barbara Canavan's inaugural budget town hall Monday.

Maryland's state school board rolled back the implementation of tougher passing standards on high school English and math exams required for graduation. The higher standard now won't go into effect until 2024 when this year's sixth graders would graduate.

On the standarized PARCC test, Lakeland reported school-wide gains of 7.4 percent in math for third through eighth grade.

Who received thumbs up (or down) this week from the Times?

Despite above state average Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers scores, Carroll County Board of Education members urged taking a closer look at results.

Harford County students generally scored above average on the latest round of standardized testing statewide. It's a performance worthy of praise.

PARCC results for 2017 are released for Harford County Public Schools students.

For some time now I have been concerned about the test mania that seems prevalent in our society. 

Less than half Maryland school students passed a still new standardized test - a signal that the test is hard, and that's what it needs to be given what the future workforce will look like.

Results of English and math assessments released Tuesday show Maryland students have made only slight progress and less than half statewide passed the tests.

Wile Carroll comes in toward the top, many categories reveal only about half of students are passing, showing there is still progress to be made.

Three years after Maryland decided to hold public school students to higher standards, results of English and math assessments released Tuesday show students have made only slight progress.

Maryland's school board decided on a five-star system to rate its schools last week, but many of the details still have to be worked out.

Teachers, admin use local assessments to prepare for PARCC, drive curriculum.

Teachers, admin use local assessments to prepare for PARCC, drive curriculum.

The Carroll County Board of Education is postponing the process of designing a new strategic plan.

The Harford County Public Schools proposed fiscal 2018 budget was the subject of a nearly two-hour review during a work session before the Harford County Council Monday.

Shouldn't student achievement guide how Maryland spends dollars rather than arbitrary amounts disconnected from readiness for work or college? Taxpayers deserve to know they are preparing productive lives, not funding bureaucracies.

Oklahoma Road Middle School was the top Carroll County middle school when it came to PARCC scores this year.

Six elementary schools were named Maryland blue ribbon schools, a designation given only to those highest performing schools or those that have made significant improvement.

Harford County Public School students at all grade levels have outpaced their peers statewide on standardized tests for the second consecutive year, according to achievement data presented to the Board of Education Monday evening.

While some schools in the Baltimore region posted solid results on the latest round of state tests, most weren't celebrating.

Recent numbers from Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers data show most areas saw improvement in Carroll schools.

Baltimore Polytechnic Institute has been known for pumping out top math and science students for more than a century. So perhaps it isn't surprising that the elite city high school has the highest pass rate of any in the region on the tough new state Algebra I exam. The Baltimore Sun analyzed 2016 scores on the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Career and ranked Baltimore-area elementary, middle and high schools.