More countries are edging ahead of the United States in math and science achievement, according to the latest results from an international test of 4th and 8th graders in the subjects. The Trends in ...

Lincoln University students got a chance to work with local elementary students in preparation for leading their own classrooms one day. Through the River Reporters project with local Thorpe Gordon ...

Corrected: A previous version of this story mischaracterized the size of achievement gaps in the chart below. The pandemic didn’t just affect students’ reading and math achievement—it brought a drop ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Bright lights were in little hands and even brighter minds at Windsor Park Elementary School on Wednesday. It was a lab day for one fourth grade science class. The young ...

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 ...

New test scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as the Nation’s Report Card, show eighth-graders’ science scores have fallen 4 points since 2019 and ...

This story has been edited to add additional information about 12th grade mathematics and reading scores. Eighth grade students’ science test scores have fallen to the level they were in 2009, the ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. NEWFANE — Beginning in March, fourth and fifth graders at NewBrook Elementary School started putting together a science fair. Each student had a unique ...

WASHINGTON — D.C. has an official bird, mammal, fish, crustacean, dinosaur, flower, fruit and tree. It does not, however, have an official amphibian, as some young students are now pointing out.

For 20 years, teachers in North Carolina’s Caldwell County Schools relied on one textbook and their imaginations to teach elementary science. Fourth-grade teacher Megan Lovins would study the county’s ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Fourth-grade student scores in Ohio on a test known as the Nation’s Report Card show little improvement since the COVID-19 pandemic. And in some areas, they are worse or have not ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A decade-long slide in high schoolers’ reading and math performance continued last year, with 12th graders’ scores dropping to their lowest level in more than 20 years, according to ...