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 ...

This month, New York State reported that just 22 percent of the eighth graders who took this year’s Common Core-aligned math test received a passing mark. To find out how you compare with an eighth ...

January 15, 2026 - We visited Heather Povinelli in her Monrovia classroom, where we spoke about how she got back into teaching, how she creates an inclusive classroom, and what she learned conducting ...

U.S. 4th and 8th grade students are performing worse in math, and somewhat worse in reading, than they were two years ago, according to new data from a national test. The results were a surprise to ...

New results from a federal test of fourth- and eighth-graders show a first-ever decline in math scores, according to the U.S. Department of Education. The drop from 2013 was slight — 1 point on the ...

Passing rates on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, or STAAR, generally improved for fifth-grade reading and math across Bexar County, but the eighth-grade results were mixed.