Theoretical mathematician Lauren K. Williams is the second woman in Harvard’s history to get tenure in the math department ...

The reading slump has been well documented in other data sources. In January, results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress showed reading scores for 4th and 8th grades continuing to ...

New 2025 testing data shows third- through eighth-graders scored far below 2019 levels in reading. In math, some grades have ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 1 (Reuters) - U.S. government services will be disrupted until President Donald Trump and Congress agree on a spending deal. Federal agencies have ordered hundreds of thousands of ...

Our math and reading scores have been declining for a decade. The “Southern Surge” should be a wake-up call. Emily Scherer has been teaching fifth-grade English in Newport, Vermont, for nearly a ...

SINGAPORE/BEIJING, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Chinese buyers booked at least 10 cargoes of Argentine soybeans after Buenos Aires scrapped grain export taxes, three traders said on Tuesday, dealing another ...

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

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 ...

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’ ...

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 ...