A sharp rise in students entering the University of California system without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators. A new internal report from the University of California ...

/ Texas Education Agency Texas elementary and middle school students made gains in reading this year, prompting education leaders to celebrate the scores as a sign that the state’s focus on literacy ...

In math, Algebra 1 is a make-or-break course. The class is the gateway to high school math, and struggling to complete it can close off those higher-level pathways—and even jeopardize students’ ...

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The average student in 2024 remained nearly half a grade level behind pre-pandemic achievement in math and reading, according to a study released Tuesday. The 2025 Education Recovery Scorecard, based ...

COMPTON, Calif. — 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 dramatic ...

Ohio students' reading and math scores still haven't recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new data released Wednesday by the National Center for Education Statistics. “The news is not ...

American students’ reading skills have continued to decline since the COVID-19 pandemic, while their math skills have barely improved, according to a report from the Department of Education released ...

Massachusetts schoolchildren outscored kids from the rest of the country in reading and math in 2024, according to an assessment known as "the nation's report card." But the state is still struggling ...

Stay on top of articles like this one by subscribing to the weekly MindShift email newsletter. Almost five years have passed since COVID-19 first disrupted America’s schools, and new data, known as ...

Students graph linear equations in Zach Loy’s ninth-grade algebra class at Braham Area High School in Minnesota. Credit: Patience Zalanga for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic ...