Kindergartners who started school scoring in the bottom 20% had only a 1 in 10 chance of reading proficiency by 3rd grade.

Those early differences can have critical implications for whether students ultimately reach proficiency by third grade — a critical academic benchmark closely tied to long-term educational success.

A bill moving through the California Legislature would test students as early as kindergarten on math. It's part of an effort ...

Dylan Kane likes his math curriculum. But there’s one important piece missing, he says. The 7th grade math teacher in Leadville, Colo., uses a program that teaches math skills through real-world ...

Louisiana students made gains or held steady on most state LEAP tests this year, a sign that Louisiana has sustained its ...

The educators are tasked with developing recommendations to improve Texas schools ahead of the next legislative session.

For the first time ever, more than 60% of Florida students posted marks on statewide standardized tests that showed they ...

Today, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) released STAAR assessment results for grades 3–8 for the 2025–26 school year, providing insight into how students across Texas are developing the foundational ...

Testing of students in several subjects has been used for many years now to determine their level of proficiency in those areas. Beginning around 2013, math and reading scores of the third through ...

When Joel Francik became principal of Central Elementary School in 2019, all of his prior education experience had been in ...

Florida Department of Education released school grades in July. Test scores, academic progress, graduation rates factor in how schools are rated.

At Crawford School, fishing is more than just a shared pastime among the school’s 50 or so K-8 students. It’s a ...