Debate on whether mathematics should be an optional subject in senior school under the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) raged during a three-day symposium organised by the Kenya National Examinations ...

American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten shares her perspective on a controversial Supreme Court case and ...

Some 4th and 12th grade tests won't proceed as planned, following sweeping cuts to the U.S. Department of Education research ...

The former governor of Illinois, now a Florida education advocate, decries the Senate’s recent bill lowering school standards ...

Thirty percent of Illinoisan fourth graders were reading at or above a proficient level last year, according to the results ...

Florida has a math problem. Fourth graders’ performance in the subject on the Nation’s Report Card has stagnated over the past decade. Eighth graders recently hit a 20-year low on the biannual test, ...

Illinois Republican state Rep. Dan Ugaste is speaking out against a “nationwide literacy crisis” that counts Illinois among ...

Florida policymakers have made it easier to say students are achieving when they are actually falling short by lowering the ...

Three local school district superintendents joined a panel on Thursday morning to discuss concerns facing Oregon public ...

Under common A-F grading systems, teachers factor both academic achievement and noncognitive factors, such as extra credit opportunities or late-work penalties. Advocates for standards-based grading ...

The latest national test scores show that Maryland’s K-12 students are performing below average in math. Maryland’s fourth and eighth-grade math scores on the National Assessment of Educational ...

by Jackie Kent, KOMO News Reporter TOPICS: SEATTLE — State and federal education spending for K-12 schools in Washington is way up, but test scores in fourth grade reading and eighth grade math ...