After decades of paper-and-pencil tests, the new results from the “nation’s report card” in writing come from a computer-based assessment for the first time, but only about one-quarter of the 8th and ...

BOZEMAN — Starting in two years, only students who pass a writing proficiency test will be fully admitted to Montana’s four-year state colleges and universities, the Board of Regents decided Friday.

CARSON CITY -- Liberty High School senior Spencer Hill-Hale dreams of playing college football this fall, but he needed to make the equivalent of a Hail Mary pass to graduate in June. He had failed ...

Clinard and others have worked on the writing proficiency test since 1998. In 2000, the Board of Regents authorized the higher education commissioner's office to begin field-testing a writing ...

Undergraduate students at CSUN have maintained a steady proficiency in their writing skills over the past several years, in contrast to a study done and published by two sociologists who say that ...

BOZEMAN - Starting in two years, only students who pass a writing proficiency test will be fully admitted to Montana's four-year state colleges and universities, the Board of Regents decided Friday.