"I am routinely asked questions like, 'What's eight times zero?' Or, 'how many sides does a triangle have?' These are eighth ...

New York City Schools only held back 0.4 percent of students in grades 3-8 last year even as half of city schools ...

Facing state intervention, Beaumont ISD unveils a five-year plan to elevate 17 underperforming campuses, emphasizing ...

The Network for Public Education ranked Florida last for its commitment to public schools. Florida received an F grade, scoring 14 out of 100 possible points in the report. The report links the ...

Wisconsin's Department of Public Instruction is proposing a "Portrait of a Graduate" initiative to focus on life skills. Critics express concern that this new focus may detract from improving poor ...

As the school year is coming to a close, a new analysis shines another harsh spotlight on what’s being called a “learning recession” for American students. It's a problem that started long before the ...

Florida A&M University’s Board of Trustees is taking an extra step to support its developmental research school in efforts to bring its grade up from a C to an A. A Special Committee on the ...

Global data on math achievement is revealing a dismaying trend: Girls are doing worse than boys — and the margins are huge. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. In 2023, fourth-grade boys ...

A few days into the new semester this January, the LaSalle Parish school district in rural Louisiana made a pronouncement: No more homework. Since then, none of the 2,500 students in this district — ...

Federal survey data suggests that the amount of math homework assigned to fourth and eighth grade students, in particular, has been steadily declining for the past decade. Credit: Stanislaw ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...