Spending more taxpayer dollars doesn't make kids smarter, according to experts. As K-12 test scores and student proficiency ...

One afternoon earlier this year, my 11-year-old son was sitting at his laptop and working quietly on his math homework. At ...

A student walks down a hallway as several signs indicating students are taking STAAR exams are displayed at Arnold Elementary School in San Antonio on April 2, 2026. Editorial Fellow Over the past ten ...

The pandemic-era backslide in math and reading scores for students across the U.S. was not a sudden catastrophe but the continuation of a brutal, decade-long "learning recession" that began years ...

Results of a math test teacher candidates in Ontario must pass in order to be certified show striking disparities across language, age and racial groups, the province's teachers' federation says. The ...

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Instead, the authors pinned the change on COVID-19 and an increase in low-income student enrollments. It’s unclear whether they knew about the calculator policy change. The report’s authors attributed ...

The verdict, it seems, is in: artificial intelligence is not about to replace mathematicians. That is the immediate takeaway from the “First Proof” challenge—perhaps the most robust test yet of the ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

One school district in Onondaga County was among the top 30 in New York for proficiency levels on the latest round of statewide assessments in math and English language arts. The Fayetteville-Manlius ...

Test results show a tale of two school systems across the Lehigh Valley, with suburban districts Southern Lehigh and Parkland ranking in the top 10% statewide and the large urban districts of ...

Scores on New York’s statewide assessment tests improved in both math and English language arts during the 2024-2025 school year. Statewide, 57% of students tested proficient in math last year, up 3 ...