New results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress show diverging trends for 9- and 13-year-olds.

Federal assessment measures long-term reading & math trends for America’s 9- and 13-years olds.

American kids are spending less and less of their free time with books—and a sweeping federal study suggests it is taking a ...

Children’s wellbeing in the U.S. declined between 2019 and 2024, with children in 29 states faring worse than before the ...

Unscathed by pandemic-era school closures, the nation's 9-year-olds showed progress in math and reading. It's a different ...

Researchers are warning that the U.S. is experiencing a reading recession, a slide that predates the COVID-19 pandemic ...

US schoolchildren are falling further behind in reading and math, with analysis showing the decline began years before the ...

Younger students have regained ground academically after the pandemic's disruptions, while older students' test scores ...

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A broke school district shelled out nearly $400,000 to extreme ”ethnic studies” consultants obsessed with defunding the ...

Before every important test, teacher Nancy Barajas dims the lights, turns on a disco ball and blasts music from her playlist. Her sixth graders dance together as a “pre-celebration” to boost their ...

COMPTON, Calif. (AP) — Math is the subject sixth grader Harmoni Knight finds hardest, but that’s changing. In-class tutors and “data chats” at her middle school in Compton, California, have made a ...