News

Alabama is the only state where 4th-grade math scores are higher now than they were in 2019, before the pandemic. This is the story of how the state pulled it off.
State and federal education spending for K-12 schools in Washington is way up, but test scores in fourth grade reading and eighth grade math are dropping.
U.S. 4th and 8th grade students are performing worse in math, and somewhat worse in reading, than they were two years ago, according to new data from a national test.
Scores in fourth-grade math, eighth-grade math and eighth-grade reading are the lowest they’ve been since test-taking procedures last changed in 2002 and 2003.
In reading, New York saw no change, while national scores dropped 3 points. In fourth-grade math, Asian and Pacific Islander students saw the steepest decline in scores, a 14-point drop in ...
There's some good news in math, mostly bad news in reading and lots of questions about why students are still struggling.
Carl Thomas, a teacher at KIPP SPARK Academy, reflected on his own “love/hate” relationship with school growing up and how it ...
Michigan children may be significantly lagging behind in fourth-grade reading, eight-grade math and overall in certain K-12 student groups compared to the rest of the country, according to a new ...
Despite the sky-high spending, only 33% of Big Apple fourth graders scored proficient in math and just 28% were proficient in reading last year, according to the results.