At some point over the past few pandemic years, many states pressed pause on one particular high-stakes, controversial piece of education policy: 3rd grade retention. But now, it’s back. The laws ...

James F. Hirni Research Assistant America's students still are not performing at a satisfactory level, and Americans are not getting a solid return on the investment of their tax dollars in the nation ...

Virginia has made reading by third grade a priority. Now it is time to make it a top priority. Our state has one of the most ...

The Arkansas Education Department is touting today marked gains on 12th graders’ math and reading scores on national testing, including a gain in reading that brought the state near the national ...

(The Center Square) – The latest National Assessment of Educational Progress report, often called the “Nation's Report Card,” shows that high school seniors' math and reading scores have reached ...

The average reading score for high school seniors declined between 2015 and 2019 and remained unchanged in math, while the country's lowest performing seniors saw their scores drop in both subjects.

The disquieting side effect of our increasingly detailed longitudinal studies of students is we keep finding warning signs of a future graduation derailment earlier and earlier in a child’s school ...