The Jefferson City Board of Education wants to implement a new test to better prepare its students for the future.
Members of the administration discussed a new format of a standardized test for eighth graders that would require them to answer in-depth questions about a given story.
Jefferson City Superintendent Brian Mitchell believes this new assessment will help both students and board members.
NPR reports that a survey by the National Assessment of Educational Progress shows that many students are simply "not being challenged in school." Parents, what's your take?