Two 17-year-old classmates at Hanoi's Foreign Language Specialized School recently achieved perfect overall band scores of 9.0 in the IELTS on their first attempt, a rare accomplishment nationwide.

Fourth graders are capable of using a computer to type, organize, and write well enough to be assessed, according to a pilot study released July 24 by the National Center for Education Statistics.

News that millions of students who took the PARCC exams on computers tended to score worse than those who took the tests on paper raises an important question: Do the computer-based exams that are ...