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 ...

To complement Quality Counts 2010’s exploration of reinvigorated interest in common standards and assessments on the national stage, the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center conducted an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Little more than 1 in 3 American 12 th graders read proficiently and fewer than 1 in 4 performed proficiently in math on the National Assessment of Educational Progress in 2019, marking widening gaps ...

New math scores show fourth-graders made no gains since 2007, the first time in two decades they have failed to improve. Eighth-graders advanced for yet another year. Education officials called the ...

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 ...

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 ...

During Math classes in schools some students thrive on solving equations, while others feel lost in a sea of numbers and formulas. For educators, the challenge lies in striking the perfect balance: ...