ST. LOUIS — Students across Missouri are under pressure as state testing is underway and it's a time of year many families dread. The Missouri Assessment Program (MAP) is used to accredit schools and ...

Q: I’m sick of all the testing my 3rd grader has to endure. What can you tell me about MAP testing? My child spends several days every year taking this ridiculous test. Now I’m hearing that it’s ...

In an all-district email sent May 13, Superintendent José Banda wrote, “High schools may opt out of MAP in 2013-14.” The announcement led to celebrations at Garfield High School as students and ...

Four decades ago at the Jolly Roger restaurant in Chehalis, a group of school administrators dreamed up the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP), the set of exams that is now under attack in Seattle.

Each academic year Catholic elementary schools in the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois participate in standardized testing using the Measure of Academic Progress (MAP) test. Testing in Diocesan ...