In grade school, you were probably constantly drilled on mathematics. Whether it be multiplication tables, simple addition, or complicated division, it was taught over and over again that quick math ...

In “Do Sports Explain the ‘Math Gender Gap’?” (op-ed, Sept. 8), J.T. Young speculates whether “the way we teach math is somehow biased against girls.” A related issue is that recent teaching ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A decade-long slide in high schoolers’ reading ...

(NEXSTAR) — School is back in session, bringing in the first wave of students born during the pandemic, dubbed “COVID kindergartners,” into classrooms nationwide. The students older than them, however ...

The writing’s on the wall — if you can read it. Sobering national test results show more high school seniors are struggling with math and reading than at any point in recent decades, with Education ...

The latest results from the so-called Nation’s Report Card are out, and they paint a sobering picture of academic achievement across the country. The National Center for Education Statistics has ...

High schoolers’ reading and math scores dropped to the lowest level in decades, along with declines in science scores from eighth graders, according to the National Assessment of Education Progress ...

New test scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as the Nation's Report Card, show eighth-graders' science scores have fallen 4 points since 2019 and ...

A decade-long slide in high schoolers' reading and math performance persisted during the COVID-19 pandemic, with 12th graders' scores dropping to their lowest level in more than 20 years, according to ...

The reading and math scores of 12th graders has dropped to their lowest level in more than 20 years, according to results from an exam known as the nation's report card. The National Assessment of ...

American high-school seniors’ scores on major math and reading tests fell to their lowest levels on record, according to results released Tuesday by the U.S. Education Department. Twelfth-graders’ ...

A decade-long slide in high schoolers’ reading and math performance persisted during the COVID-19 pandemic, with 12th graders’ scores dropping to their lowest level in more than 20 years, according to ...