This newspaper had reported extensively on cheating, but hadn’t dug deeply into a more basic question: Just how good are the exams used to make critical decisions in schools? No one, it turned out, ...

I often come across heated blog posts where the author uses the argument: "exceptions vs explicit error checking" to advocate his/her preferred language over some ...

The main drivers of diagnostic errors in 2023 were issues with processing medical tests, referrals and communication, according to the Emergency Care Research Institute. Nearly 7 in 10 errors occur ...

The state Department of Education is giving Oklahoma sixth graders the option to retake their state reading test. Schools say there was an error in the instructions ...

Testing giant Pearson botched grading the entrance exams to the city’s gifted and talented programs, Education officials said Friday, shutting out about 2,700 kids who qualified for the coveted ...

There is an increasing awareness of the impact of errors in medicine on the patient and on the entire healthcare system. It is estimated that as many as 98,000 people die annually in the USA as a ...