The Class of 2024, which entered high school just months after the COVID-19 pandemic hit in March 2020, spent nearly four years enduring lockdowns, masks, distance learning and increased absenteeism — ...

A decade-long slide in high schoolers’ reading and math performance persisted during the COVID-19 pandemic, with 12th graders’ scores dropping to their lowest level in more than 20 years, according to ...

Student achievement has fallen nationwide. But the Metro Nashville district began to see this decline earlier, and has been working to address it since 2019. In the years since—and despite a global ...

Mississippi fourth graders’ average math scores on the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress were higher than ...

COMPTON, Calif. — Math is the subject sixth grader Harmoni Knight finds hardest, but that's changing. In-class tutors and “data chats” at her middle school in Compton, California, have made a dramatic ...

Harvard economist Roland Fryer discovered something remarkable while studying the Harlem Children's Zone. They had eliminated the racial achievement gap in math and cut it by a third in reading. But ...

Students in New York City’s largest school district are so bored by the DOE’s dumbed-down math curriculum they read novels in class, parents say. Families are forced to shell out thousands of dollars ...

This article was originally published in Chalkbeat. Reading and math scores shot up across New York City’s public schools last school year, according to state test results released Monday. Among ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — About two dozen second graders sat on the carpet at the front of Jacquelyn Anthony’s classroom, reviewing how to make tens. “Two needs eight!” the students yelled out together. “Six ...