National tests for high school seniors show declines among low-performing students, and officials are overlooking an obvious reason: standard teaching methods conflict with scientific evidence. Scores ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When the latest national achievement scores come out, people want to look at the change since the last time. Are things going up ...

Newly released data from a crucial national test revealed historically low scores in two major subjects for 12th graders across the country, further emphasizing that U.S. students have struggled to ...

The 12th grade math test is given to a random sample of public and private school students around the country. It was most recently given to about 9,000 students in 2005. States are required to ...

International tests scores released this month provide further evidence that U.S. students are behind where they should be in math, a problem that has huge implications for their success in school and ...

The board that sets policy for the National Assessment of Educational Progress has revised the blueprint for the 12th grade mathematics version of the influential exam, in an attempt to make the test ...

American high schoolers are approaching graduation with less of a grasp on reading and still-low math scores – and that's before factoring in the pandemic. The average reading score for high school ...

With 38% of students scoring below basic in 8th grade science, students’ science scores were the lowest they’ve been since 2009, while students’ scores in 12th grade math and reading were the lowest ...

When the latest national achievement scores come out, people want to look at the change since the last time. Are things going up or down? But that short-term focus on the averages loses sight of ...