New school test results have fueled an ongoing debate about methodology and persistent racial achievement gaps. The debate hints at partisan state budget rhetoric to come in 2025 when a ...

In the last five years, Alabama has invested heavily in elementary reading and math skills. Many schools have hired coaches, ...

English and math scores improved from 2023 to 2024, but still have not caught up to results from prior to the pandemic.

As for the rest of the city’s schools, the overall math proficiency rate was 7%, the lowest in Maryland ... In these cities, only 28% of Black students performed at or above grade level in math, a ...