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Wisconsin state test scores released Thursday confirmed significant academic declines and persisting gaps during the pandemic, with some glimmers of progress in the last school year. On math and ...

A mixed class of Year 2 and 3 students — equivalent to first and second grades in the United States — practices fractions at Beach Haven School in Auckland, New Zealand. The government has instituted ...

In another measure of the pandemic’s corrosive impact on learning, California students performed significantly worse in 2022 on Smarter Balanced, the state’s standardized test. Fewer than half of ...

Scores on a national assessment of reading and math have plummeted in the past three years — both in Massachusetts and nationwide. The state has long touted its performance on the National Assessment ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — New York City released the results of state reading and math exams from this past spring, the first time for many families to receive state test results for their children in the ...

Two out of 3 California students did not meet state math standards and more than half did not meet English standards on state assessments taken in the spring, reflecting sizable drops in performance ...

Math and reading scores for America's 9-year-olds fell dramatically during the first two years of the pandemic, according to a new federal study — offering an early glimpse of the sheer magnitude of ...

In a significant departure, the California Department of Education is withholding the release of the results of the Smarter Balanced tests that students took last spring until an undetermined date ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — New York City public school students are more proficient in reading, but less so when it comes to math than they were in 2019, according to citywide results of state test scores.

New Jersey student proficiency rates fell to 2015 levels during the COVID-19 pandemic, but education officials and advocates said the state’s recently released test scores could help guide future ...