New data shows Orange County students are making test score gains

New state assessment data from the 2024-25 school year show overall improvements and county scores outperformed statewide averages once again.
The Times of Northwest Indiana

FAFSA application is open for early testing. Here's what to know

NEW YORK — The Free Application for Federal Student Aid for the 2026-27 school year has opened for a limited number of students as part of a beta test, the Department of Education says. The department ...

Navigating standardized testing today: What students need to know

Scholarship Institute reports on evolving standardized testing in the U.S., highlighting digital formats and AI's impact on ...
Education Week

Quiz Yourself: How Can Districts Support Teaching Students Real-World STEM?

This quiz is sponsored by National Science Teacher Association. Education Week has full editorial control of content. Once you complete the quiz, you can see how your score compares to yours peers, ...
The Red & Black

Athens through global eyes: How international students at UGA find home away from home

When fourth-year Ph.D. student Uyiosa Ugiagbe first arrived in Athens from Nigeria, one of the things that shocked him most was not the campus, the language or the academics — it was the library. “The ...
The Salt Lake Tribune

Utah’s latest standardized test results are out. How does your kid’s school district stack up?

Most Utah students aren’t meeting state standards in math and science, according to newly released state testing data. The Utah State Board of Education recently published statewide assessment results ...
Roll Call

We are becoming the world’s D student, latest test results suggest

Last week, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the gold standard of educational testing, released its 2024 12th-grade results for reading and math. The NAEP results should be a serious ...
Education Next

Student Test Scores Keep Falling. What’s Really to Blame?

Ever since Covid-19 closed U.S. schools for in-person instruction in March 2020, questions about pandemic learning loss have shaped reactions to new data on student learning. How much did achievement ...
Channel 3000

Waves of fake threats to colleges put students on edge and test dispatchers

MISSION, Kan. — About 50 college campuses across the United States in recent weeks received hoax calls about armed gunmen and other violence, laying bare the challenges of detecting fake threats ...
News4Jax

Ribault High says students who showed up for homecoming dance to find no one there missed multiple cancellation notices

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Some Ribault High students and their family members took to social media over the weekend to complain after they say the students spent all day getting ready for a homecoming ...
The Center Square

WATCH: WA test scores still below pre-pandemic levels despite massive student spending

(The Center Square) – Test scores for students in reading and math show slight improvements this year, according to data released this week by the Washington Office of the Superintendent of Public ...