THE PANDEMIC AND THE LOSSES THAT THAT BROUGHT. EVERY TWO YEARS, A RANDOM GROUP OF FOURTH AND EIGHTH GRADE PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS TAKE THE NATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS. IT MEASURES ...

The deep academic regression American students suffered during the coronavirus pandemic has at last turned a corner, new data show, as scores in reading and math stopped falling last year and began to ...

U.S. students’ math scores lag behind also dreary reading ones and have struggled even before the pandemic, but changes to the math curriculum to combat the problem have been slow moving. Over the ...

Kaicey Baylor joined WJZ as a reporter in October 2024. Before coming to Charm City, she spent the last three years as a morning reporter and multiskilled journalist at 13News Now in Norfolk, Virginia ...

Throughout Tiffany Trevenen’s more than 30-year career in Moffat County schools in Craig, Colo., she has seen students experience the same math struggles again and again. “It was very apparent in ...

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 ...