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American students have experienced a significant decline in math performance, with only 56% of fourth-graders performing at grade level in 2023 compared to 69% ...

Third grade is regarded as a turning point in reading, when students are expected to read more complex text across the school day. If they can’t read at grade level in upper elementary school and ...

There's a move afoot in the Legislature to pressure the state school board to jettison the LEAP student assessments. The bill ...

STAAR and the A-F system are the results of changes to education that then-Gov. George W. Bush ushered through the Texas ...

The "ongoing charade" that the grades 3-8 assessments provide schools with the means to improve student achievement needs to ...

Microsoft's recent release of Phi-4-reasoning challenges a key assumption in building artificial intelligence systems capable ...

Meanwhile, Mississippi, one of Newsom’s red-state bogeymen, has been the nation’s success story, going from near last in 2013 ...

Could it be that the nation's large fraction of students lacking math proficiency is caused by significant numbers of ...

Summer break is upon us. Here's what to know about MSCS summer school programs as well as multiple different summer camp offerings in Memphis.

A deep dive into the data behind the poor scores of South Africa’s primary school learners in reading assessments — Part 1.

An eighth grader at Bright Horizon Academy in San Diego will begin competing in the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Tuesday ...