The Supreme Court is taking up an appeal from Alabama, which wants to put to death a man who lower federal courts found is intellectually disabled and shielded from execution. The justices are ...

Michigan’s State School Aid Act required school districts to administer benchmark assessments in reading and math to all K-8 ...

In many cases, parents or school administrators push back against a child’s deserved bad grades or their need to repeat a ...

Nearly half of young New Yorkers statewide are still missing the mark on standardized math and English exams, according to ...

Seven months after students spent four days taking tests in reading, writing and math, their results have been released by the state Education Department.

Experts suggest the COVID-19 pandemic, technology and chronic absenteeism are potential factors in the decline. The U.S. Education secretary called the results "devastating" and a justification for ...

In “Do Sports Explain the ‘Math Gender Gap’?” (op-ed, Sept. 8), J.T. Young speculates whether “the way we teach math is somehow biased against girls.” A related issue is that recent teaching ...

North Carolina students are making big gains in math, though they remain behind the proficiency rates of 2018 and 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic closed schools, new data from the North Carolina ...

Reading scores are declining for fourth and eighth grade students. America’s fourth and eighth grade students’ sliding reading scores worsened in 2024, according to the National Assessment of ...

Five years ago, Alabama's math was literally the worst. On national assessments from 2019, the state was ranked last in the country for math performance. Across the state, only 22 percent of students ...

LOTHIAN, Md., June 12, 2025 — Chelsea McDonald, a fourth-grade teacher at Lothian Elementary School, has been named the 2025 Elementary School Outstanding Mathematics Educator by the Maryland Council ...