Vancouver parents used to be able to fill in a simple form if they didn't want their kids writing the controversial FSA tests. That's all changed now that a government-appointed trustee is in charge.

Our stubborn refusal to go with the flow may have put our son in an awkward position. This month kids in grades 4 and 7 in British Columbia schools, both public and private, began taking the ...

The Education Ministry chose the final day of June to release the Foundation Skills Assessment (FSA) 2009 report. That can mean only one thing — it doesn’t contain good news for government. Indeed, ...

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Educational Testing Service are teaming up to develop a new way to evaluate competency-based learning. The two organizations announced ...

The B.C. Teachers' Federation is once again calling on the province to end the Foundation Skills Assessment test. Handed out annually to students in grades 4-7, FSAs are meant to offer an academic ...

The analysis presented in this report is based on the first large-scale assessment of foundational skills among youth and adults in Thailand. The assessment was designed to measure the 15–64-year-olds ...