AUSTIN - Students will not be held accountable for the math portion of the STAAR test this year. The Texas Education Agency (TEA) made the decision after teachers and parents voiced their concerns ...

The common math assessments under development by PARCC will be translated into Spanish and possibly other languages, but whether English-language learners will have access to non-English versions will ...

Narrow math tests inevitably drive down real standards because accountability pressures principals and teachers to teach to the test. Conversely, well-engineered tests of the math we actually want ...

The poster of a grimacing Muhammad Ali stares down at the students in Jeff Bagford’s pre-algebra class at Harney Middle School. “Nothing is impossible” is the poster’s message, spelled out in big ...

Editor’s note: This story was updated to indicate Paul Lundeen is the senate minority leader. A Weld RE-3J School District elementary school was recognized by the state last week for its improved math ...

Nationwide scores plummeted in math and fell significantly in reading in 2022 on the National Assessment of Educational Progress or NAEP, providing new evidence of the pandemic’s unparalleled impact ...

Math remained a struggle. English language arts had a stronger showing. And with science — this past year, at least — it was hard to tell. Results from state exams taken in the spring were released ...

Tenth-graders in the US saw their math scores on an international test hit an all-time low last year while plummeting 13 points compared to 2018, according to results released Tuesday. The Program for ...

Summer 2026 registration: For students who have submitted the Math Readiness Test and would like to improve their math placements, an on-campus Proctored Math Placement Test will be offered on Tuesday ...

The highest-ranking city school on the new math tests was the Syracuse Latin School, which had a proficiency level of 55%. That tied the school for No. 77 in the region.