A movement to help students understand rather than memorize has had sprawling effects, including pushback on teaching methods ...

One of the most hotly contested teaching practices concerns a single minute of math class. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift Should teachers pull out their stopwatches and administer one-page ...

A mixed class of Year 2 and 3 students — equivalent to first and second grades in the United States — practices fractions at Beach Haven School in Auckland, New Zealand. The government has instituted ...

The federal No Child Left Behind Act is spurring a host of states to craft alternative state tests in reading and mathematics for children who are learning English. But the states’ efforts could be ...

Over half of Pennsylvania’s eighth-grade students scored in the worst of all four categories on the standardized test in math during 2021 — about 53.5%, to be exact. That figure — compared to state ...

ALBANY — New York will change what it takes for students to reach “proficiency” on state math and English language arts tests, calling last year’s lower scores the “new normal.” A scoring committee ...

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Kentucky students performed better in 2024-2025 than in recent years across several grade levels and subjects, state Department of Education officials said Wednesday as statewide testing data was ...

Preliminary data from the North Carolina Department of Public Education shows students scored lower on state tests for math and science this fall compared to fall 2019. About 24,000 tests, out of ...

Just over half of Wisconsin's grade school students are meeting, or exceed, state standards for math and English language arts, according to data from standardized tests released Tuesday. What that ...