In a week dominated by grim headlines, a 9-year-old girl from Ontario, Canada managed to unleash a ripple effect of pure delight across the internet, all with a vocabulary quiz. “My daughter’s ...

The results of an international test of academic skills released recently show dire declines in math for U.S. fourth- and eighth-grade students. The Trends in International Mathematics and Science ...

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The number of local pupils failing the state's fourth-grade math test nearly tripled last year, closely mirroring the dismal results from the English test that were released two weeks ago. Schools in ...

Over several years, Louisiana has methodically revamped how kids are taught to read. Now, the work appears to be paying off: While students in nearly every other state made little to no reading ...

The latest troubling news on national student achievement shows the need to fiercely focus on improving basic skills. American kids are generally holding flat or doing worse on national reading and ...

Idaho students have demonstrated minimal academic growth in reading and math, according to the most recent results from a federal exam dubbed “The Nation’s Report Card.” Fourth and eighth grade ...

Math performance has slightly rebounded since the Covid-19 pandemic closed schools, but reading performance hasn’t bounced back, according to new National Assessment of Educational Progress data ...

(NEXSTAR) – While some schools are starting to claw back some of the ground lost due to pandemic-era learning disruptions, there’s still a ways to go, a new report finds. The Nation’s Report Card, ...