Research has linked long term development of math skills with certain kinds of play. For some researchers, it’s clear that American students don’t ...

The Hechinger Report covers the reasons behind the initiative to have students take algebra in eighth grade, as well as its ...

An analysis of state and national assessment test scores finds a few bright spots, along with evidence that interventions ...

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

For example, Wisconsin, Nebraska and Florida seem to have relaxed their proficiency cutoff in math and reading in the last two years ... but that decline masks a pernicious inequality that has grown ...

Fluency in understanding numbers and their relationships to one another is crucial in mastering more complex numbers later in ...

For example, Wisconsin, Nebraska and Florida seem to have relaxed their proficiency cutoff in math and reading in the last two years ... but that decline masks a pernicious inequality that has grown ...

It was most pronounced in eighth grade math: While the top 10% of students saw their scores increased by 3 points, the lowest 10% decreased by 6 points. That could reflect investments by families ...