AUSTIN, Texas — New data is highlighting a growing concern about how well students are learning math and how to read. According to the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP), scores for ...

Scores for Louisiana students fell in three of four grades on the nation’s report card but showed gains among fourth-grade readers amid a state push to improve dismal literacy rates, officials said ...

Like most of the nation, California students were stuck in low gear again in 2024. On the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP), they performed significantly below their pre-pandemic ...

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 ...

MARYLAND IS ONE OF THE FEW STATES SEEING IMPROVEMENTS IN FOURTH GRADE READING, BUT THE STATE SAW A DROP IN EIGHTH GRADE MATH PROFICIENCY. THE FINDINGS ARE PART OF THE NATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF ...

CAMERA LAST MONTH, THE PANDEMIC TOOK A TOLL ON STUDENT READING AND TEST SCORES. THE NATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS REPORTS THE AVERAGE MATH SCORE FOR FOURTH GRADERS WAS FIVE POINTS LOWER ...

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 ...

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, ...

U.S. 4th grade teachers assign less math homework than their colleagues in other nations but their students get more help with it. These are among the findings of a preliminary research study ...