More than a majority of American 4th graders and 8th graders are not meeting reading and math benchmarks, including Ohioans, according to data from the Annie E. Casey Foundation's 2024 Kids Count Data ...

This article was originally published in South Carolina Daily Gazette. COLUMBIA — Fewer than half of South Carolina third- through eighth-grade students can do math as expected for their grade level, ...

When my daughter started ninth grade at her New York City public high school, she was placed in algebra 1. She’d already passed it in eighth grade but, due to the pandemic, hadn’t taken the Regents ...

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Students graph linear equations in Zach Loy’s ninth-grade algebra class at Braham Area High School in Minnesota. Credit: Patience Zalanga for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic ...

The public schools in the state of New York doled out $29,284 per pupil in "current expenditures" in fiscal year 2022, said a report published this week by the Department of Education's National ...

Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy highlighted America’s worsening K-12 education crisis, noting that 75% of U.S. eighth graders lack math proficiency while Chinese students are four years ahead.

SEATTLE — An annual report examining the decline in student reading and math proficiencies since the COVID-19 pandemic is giving a glimpse into where Washington state stands with two key indicators of ...

This story has been edited to add additional information about 12th grade mathematics and reading scores. Eighth grade students’ science test scores have fallen to the level they were in 2009, the ...

In January 2006, ABC’s John Stossel’s brutally honest documentary, “ Stupid in America ,” first aired. At the time, he ...