Math anxiety holds students back from reaching their potential. Experts share insights on the problem and strategies to combat it.

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

While average dollars per student in federal COVID-19 relief was on par with the national average, recovery in math and ...

By Pat Minelli and Mary Sasa Staff Writers State test scores released today show Shakopee students in 2007 exceeded state proficiency averages for math in most grades, but were lagging in reading ...

Alaska’s 4th and 8th graders scored below the national average and showed no improvement in 2024, amid a national decline in reading proficiency.

The eighth grade math proficiency rate has fallen from 41% in 2017 to 30% in 2024, while the percentage of students who tested below the “basic” threshold rose from 25% to 41% over that same ...

We don’t know much about Scream 7 but we know it’s happening, and involves a few creative change ups from the previous entries, including a new director. While you’re waiting, here’s where ...

The large districts that receive separate NAEP scores recorded a mixed bag last year, but largely followed national trends.

The situation remains alarming, and there hasn’t been any improvement. That stark assessment of the state of academic success of students in Milwaukee Public Schools emerges from a new wave of results ...

According to those results, 71% of Washington eighth graders were not proficient in math compared to 58% in 2013. While Washington’s average eighth-grade math ... below the basic NAEP level ...

Another way of looking at the scores reveals that 70% of fourth graders performed at or above the assessment’s basic performance level for math — that ... “Our fourth grade reading scores ...

Wisconsin, once again, ranked the worst in the nation for racial disparity, with the widest gap in math and reading scores between Black and white students In Wisconsin in 2024, 77% of fourth graders ...