We teach the wrong math and test it the wrong way. We devote thousands of hours to the obsolete rote math that pervades our high-stakes exams—math ...

Over the past ten-plus years, American students’ academic achievement has experienced a concerning decline.

It's that time of year, when students around the Lone Star State take the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness, or STAAR test, to test, well...their academic readiness. The standardized ...

When it comes to how American students are recovering from the pandemic, it's a tale of two subjects. States across the country have made some progress in math over the past two years, while in ...

I reported recently on CD that high school boys outperformed girls on the 2015 SAT math test with an average score of 527 points (55 th percentile) compared to the average score of 496 for high school ...

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

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 ...

As parents across the state open the envelopes containing their children’s scores on the new Smarter Balanced assessments administered last spring, only a third of them will see that their children ...

Nationally, math and English scores were flat or fell. LAUSD did better in fourth-grade math, a bright spot. Students are reading less for pleasure. Instead of hoped-for improvements from pandemic-era ...

At CU Boulder, students have several math courses to choose from, based on their intended major. While some courses do not require a prerequisite or prior math experience, others will require a math ...