Some educators argue that state tests don't do much more than evaluate students' ability to perform under pressure.

In this classroom, only English is spoken. The teacher, Marjan (Marjan Neshat), enforces this rule harshly — if you speak any other language, you get a tally mark. At five tallies, you are asked to ...

New results from a national exam find that America’s children have continued to lose ground on reading skills in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and have made little improvement in math ...

Texas students' overall math scores dropped from 2022. But English learners and fourth-grade Black students did better than ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis boasted of Florida's high school graduation rate in early January, which edged to 89.7% in 2024, a slight ...

Like most of the nation, California students were stuck in low gear again in 2024. On the National Assessment for Educational ...

Florida’s reading and math scores have dropped to their lowest levels in two decades, reflecting ongoing struggles in the ...

Scores nationwide and in California have yet to rebound from pandemic-era declines. Some outcomes continue to get worse. Low ...

Norton argued that without the high bar of the standard exam, kids like hers won’t have an incentive to strive. But Scruggs ...

Gowanda Elementary has seen positive results in New York State assessment scores this year according to a recent presentation ...

In the front of the fluorescent-lit interior classroom, Andrea Parks read aloud from a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, stopping frequently to question her students: what did we just read? What ...