Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. National testing data released this morning reveals severe damage inflicted on student math and reading performance, reaffirming ...

Mississippi fourth graders’ average math scores on the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress were higher than ...

Fourth- and eighth-graders fell behind in reading and had the largest ever decline in math, according to a national educational assessment showing the devastating effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on ...

WASHINGTON -- New math scores show fourth-graders made no gains since 2007, the first time in two decades they have failed to improve. Eighth-graders advanced for yet another year. Education officials ...

The results of an international test of academic skills released recently show dire declines in math for U.S. fourth- and eighth-grade students. The Trends in International Mathematics and Science ...

Every two years, hundreds of thousands of American fourth and eighth grade students take a test called the National Assessment of Educational Progress. The test evaluates students’ reading and math ...

Nationwide scores plummeted in math and fell significantly in reading in 2022 on the National Assessment of Educational Progress or NAEP, providing new evidence of the pandemic’s unparalleled impact ...

Student math scores in New York and most other states fell at record rates during the COVID-19 pandemic, prompting federal testing officials to conclude that the decline could potentially hinder the ...

The fourth graders in Jeremy Lowe’s class at Atlanta’s Parkside Elementary School are on a tight deadline. They only have five minutes to write a dramatic “warm-up play” with characters, a setting, ...