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Math and reading scores among Americas 13-year-olds fell to their lowest levels in decades, with math scores plunging by the largest margin ever recorded.

The 2023 Report on Condition of Education released recently by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the statistical center within the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES), presents the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic in every dimension of American education from prekindergarten (preK) and elementary school through college and beyond.

Legislative attempts to tackle the low reading ability among Oregon kids have failed to have an impact, and local control of reading instruction remains a problem, even in the state’s teachers colleges

According to the National Center for Educational Statistics, in 2022, New Mexico students tested at or near the bottom nationally. When using the National Assessment of Educational Progress test, only...

Ohio can and must do better on literacy instruction. This requires that the state do what the governor is proposing: Require the science of reading for all teachers who are working with students to help them read proficiently, writes Thomas J. Lasley II, of Dayton, director of policy and advocacy for Learn to Earn Dayton and the Montgomery County Educational Service Center, in a letter to the editor.

STAN GREER: Swathes Of K-12 Parents Are Dumping Schools Captured By Teachers Unions Stan Greer on June 16, 2023 Last month, education reporter Linda

The Senate can and should do a better job of improving educationalopportunities for America's children than is embodied in thelegislative vehicle approved by its Health, Education, Labor, andPensions Committee.

Current Latino-focused content in history and social studies textbooks falls far short of what should be required in a country where the proportion of the Hispanic population is expected to grow to 29% by 2050, argue Ashley Rogers Berner and Viviana López Green.

It has been going on for many years, and became even more pronounced during the COVID-19 lockdowns.

School districts around the country, reeling from dramatic drops in fourth- and eighth-grade math scores on the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress, hope to recoup at least some of what’s been lost through summer programs. Flush with federal dollars, new and robust offerings have been open to a wide swath of students starting in […]