American students are struggling with math, but what’s really to blame? Some blame the pandemic. Others point to overreliance ...

Every year, thousands of college students from across the U.S. and Canada give up a full Saturday before finals begin to take a notoriously difficult, 6-hour math test — and not for a grade, but for ...

A Los Angeles Unified middle school student studies during a seventh- and eighth-grade English and Social Studies class in spring 2023. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) Los Angeles public school ...

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An abysmal showing by U.S. students on a recent international math test flabbergasted typically restrained education researchers. “It looks like student achievement just fell off a cliff,” said Dan ...

Ontario’s 2024-25 Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) standardized test results were recently released, and ...

A mixed class of Year 2 and 3 students — equivalent to first and second grades in the United States — practices fractions at Beach Haven School in Auckland, New Zealand. The government has instituted ...

Latrenda Knighten has always liked math. As a child, she remembers breezing through timed tests ‒ high speed, low stakes assignments that challenge students to complete a number of simple problems in ...

New national test scores show a bleak picture of American education in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Fourth and eighth graders' literacy skills dipped – once again – on the U.S. Department ...