A look at economics of testing and new assessments tied to Common Core standards.

Key figures in the Atlanta school cheating scandal admit to the practice, but did we learn anything about incentives?

New York is revising the gifted and talented student test that pre-schoolers take. The new standardized test means sleepless nights for parents — and a new demand for test prep.

Companies who produce technology, from Apple to Google to Marketplace, rely on the "beta" release to get new products to market before they're bug free. But are we too liberal with the term?

According to a lot of people I've talked to for stories about the oil spill, demand for Gulf seafood is off. It seems like a lot of people are a…