The average American student remains half a grade level behind pre-pandemic levels of achievement in both reading and math ...

The starkest example of growing inequality is in eighth grade math, where the achievement gap ... returning to normal during their sixth and seventh grade years. Harvard’s West explained that ...

The practice of ‘streaming’ students in New Zealand has hurt Māori and Pacific Islander students, advocates say ...

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New research drills down on poor student achievement and notes some school districts that are beating the odds.

The national exam results also show growing inequality: While the highest ... testing fourth- and eighth-grade students on math and reading. “The news is not good,” said Peggy Carr ...

The average American student remains half a grade level behind pre-pandemic levels of achievement in both reading and math COMPTON ... decline masks a pernicious inequality that has grown during ...

The Nation’s Report Card, released by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), compares fourth and eighth grade test scores in school districts around the country. The report shows fourth ...

U.S. students were still nearly half a grade level behind in both math and reading in the spring ... calls these results evidence of "a pernicious inequality." In response to the COVID-19 pandemic ...