December 11, 2025 - A tiny school district in rural Merced County has invested heavily in school counseling. And UCLA researchers have recognized the results. Eighth-graders in the United States have ...

Slightly more than half of the state’s public school students are at or above grade level in reading. The same cannot be said of math. Results of the state’s Smarter Balance assessment show that while ...

RECORD INVESTMENTS IN EDUCATION. THE LATEST RESULTS FROM THE CLASSROOM WERE MADE PUBLIC DURING THE MONTHLY STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION MEETING. IT’S WORKING. WE ARE. IS IT WORKING IN EACH INDIVIDUAL ...

After two decades of slow and steady progress in math, U.S. fourth-graders made no improvement over 2007, according to nationwide test scores released Wednesday. Eighth-graders made headway, posting ...

Learning disruptions during the pandemic have undone decades of academic progress for the nation’s 9-year-olds — with new federal data showing dizzying drops in their math and reading scores this year ...

Nationwide scores plummeted in math and fell significantly in reading in 2022 on the National Assessment of Educational Progress or NAEP, providing new evidence of the pandemic’s unparalleled impact ...

When it comes to how American students are recovering from the pandemic, it's a tale of two subjects. States across the country have made some progress in math over the past two years, while in ...

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There’s yet more evidence that students have lost significant ground following the wobbly shift to pandemic-era remote classes that stretched for months: New data show the nation’s 13-year-olds are ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The New Mexico Public Education Department has released some of the statewide testing scores for public school students as the state continues its push to climb out of the bottom ...

Staying the course with Common Core-aligned math instruction will afford students not only greater understanding of conceptual mathematics, but also more opportunity in the job market. A 12-year-old ...