A fourth grader at Hartwood Elementary School District channeled her inner “mathlete” to earn a near-perfect score in a nationwide math competition. Charlene “Cici” Xu recently scored in the top 1% of ...

The results of an international test of academic skills released recently show dire declines in math for U.S. fourth- and eighth-grade students. The Trends in International Mathematics and Science ...

In “Do Sports Explain the ‘Math Gender Gap’?” (op-ed, Sept. 8), J.T. Young speculates whether “the way we teach math is somehow biased against girls.” A related issue is that recent teaching ...

EdSource · The John Fensterwald forecast: What’s coming for California schools in 2026 The John Fensterwald forecast: What’s coming for California schools in 2026 January 8, 2026 - It's time for John ...

BOSTON – Massachusetts students lost the top spot in math and reading test scores and the organization known as "the nation's report card" says the COVID pandemic is to blame. New data from the ...

A Math Is Cool contest has Spokane Valley fourth-graders counting wins. More than 400 fourth-grade students from around Spokane competed in mental math team challenges and individual tests during the ...

Fourth- and eighth-graders fell behind in reading and had the largest ever decline in math, according to a national educational assessment showing the devastating effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on ...

Nationwide scores plummeted in math and fell significantly in reading in 2022 on the National Assessment of Educational Progress or NAEP, providing new evidence of the pandemic’s unparalleled impact ...