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, ...

It’s around fourth grade that many youngsters become discouraged by math and begin to think of it as a subject they’re just not good at. Be aware of this and try to prevent your child from developing ...

We have yet to see any rebound in middle school math on the nation’s report card, where scores declined by 8 points from 2019 to 2022 and remained at that low point when kids last took NAEP in 2024.

Every two years, hundreds of thousands of American fourth and eighth grade students take a test called the National Assessment of Educational Progress. The test evaluates students’ reading and math ...

Buoyed by their successful strategies for early literacy, California legislators and advocacy groups are calling for a parallel approach to math.

CAMERA LAST MONTH, THE PANDEMIC TOOK A TOLL ON STUDENT READING AND TEST SCORES. THE NATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS REPORTS THE AVERAGE MATH SCORE FOR FOURTH GRADERS WAS FIVE POINTS LOWER ...

SEATTLE — State and federal education spending for K-12 schools in Washington is way up, but test scores in fourth grade reading and eighth grade math are dropping, according to a non-partisan ...

GREENVILLE, Ala. — Toward the end of a math lesson on a sunny Friday in October, fourth-grade teacher D’Atra Howard and math instructional coach LaVeda Gray ducked out of the classroom to huddle.