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Pity the Eighth-Grade Parents

Being furloughed without pay through October and most of November was a nightmare for federal workers across the U.S. But for ...
Nearly half of young New Yorkers statewide are still missing the mark on standardized math and English exams, according to ...
Some of these schools that our students go to are underperforming because they are underutilized,” Rep. La Shawn Ford said.
Fewer third- through eighth-graders in Warren County are proficient in math and English language arts in 2025 than in 2024. The state Education Department recently released results of the 2025 PSSA ...
Lehigh Valley schools and districts found themselves at both ends of the spectrum in math and English test results.
Black and Latino students are much less likely to have early access to Algebra 1 than their white and Asian peers—even when they’re in the same schools, and have similarly high math scores, according ...
Every once in a while, a state or city discovers a new and better way to educate poor children. Inevitably, a group of ...
In Illinois, officials at the State Board of Education hope to close the gap through the development of a statewide, ...
A troubling new report from one of America's leading public universities has uncovered a significant gap between students' ...
This year, the district’s more than 90 schools and nearly 60,000 students earned an “advancing” designation — the ...
Vivek Ramaswamy outlines plans to reform Ohio’s education system, stressing higher standards, literacy, math skills, and ...
“Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall below middle-school level increased nearly thirtyfold, reaching roughly one in eight members of the entering cohort,” they report, ...