The dramatic gains in student test scores on a national math exam over the past decade are being called into question by an analysis from the Brookings Institution’s Brown Center, which found ...

Reading and Math test scores for fourth- and eighth-graders plummeted throughout the United States between 2019 and 2022 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and Mississippi's results were no ...

It's that time of year, when students around the Lone Star State take the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness, or STAAR test, to test, well...their academic readiness. The standardized ...

The results of an international test of academic skills released recently show dire declines in math for U.S. fourth- and eighth-grade students. The Trends in International Mathematics and Science ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Even though they fared better than students in other states in reading, New Jersey public school students' math skills declined ...

Algebra 1 in eighth grade is a gateway to higher level math, yet 1 in 4 schools in New York state don’t offer it, a new ...

Eighth grade test scores in Maryland have been declining for many years — and not just because schools shut down during the coronavirus pandemic. Math and reading scores tested annually have steadily ...

Arkansas fourth graders earned a math score of 233, down 1 point from 2017 and 2 points from 2015, and below the 240 national average. The state's eighth grade math test-takers earned an average score ...

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