Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) said today that it's planning to buy out the assets and brand identity of NWEA, a not-for-profit organization that provides assessment and other solutions (including ...

Last week, testing provider NWEA—best known for its district-level MAP Growth exams—came out with a bold new claim: The way states give summative assessments is broken. Its solution, however, was a ...

Last week PR Manager Simona Beattie from NWEA responded to my October 21 column. My rejoinder follows: Ms. Beattie first takes me to task for not “properly citing sources of quotes.” In fact, I ...

According to its website, NWEA's Measures of Academic Progress looks at students' academic performance in math, reading, language usage, and science. Right now, students in the district lose multiple ...

Portland-based NWEA, a nationally recognized provider of standardized tests and educational research, laid off about 10% of its workforce late last week — about 120 people — just seven months after ...

Chicago Public School officials and former Mayor Rahm Emanuel spent much of the last five years touting growth every year on the NWEA — the all-important district-mandated reading and math tests that ...