North Carolina fourth- and eighth-grade students scored worse on math and reading exams this spring than before the pandemic, new federal data show. The drops in math scores are bigger than ever seen ...

Michigan reflected a nationwide trend when it saw student test scores decline for fourth- and eighth-graders in reading and for eighth-graders in math between 2022 and 2024, according to national test ...

The nation’s 4th and 8th graders have inched up in mathematics, new test data show, but the results are more mixed in reading, with 4th grade scores flat compared with two years ago. Overall, ...

The COVID-19 pandemic spared no state or region as it caused historic learning setbacks for America’s children, erasing decades of academic progress and widening racial disparities, according to ...