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By PETER HANCOCK Capitol News Illinois phancock@capitolnewsillinois.com SPRINGFIELD – Student test scores continued to fall last year but new...

Wisconsin students performed better than the national average, according to the Nation's Report Card, but still not as well as they have in the past.

Despite a national downturn in proficiency, Wyoming students perform above the national average in reading and math - a testament to the public school system.

SALEM — In the latest sign that Oregon children have been failed by leaders and need an intensive educational rescue, new federal test results indicate that the nation’s students experienced

La Familia Counseling Center is providing financial assistance for those who have been unable to pay for rent or utilities because of COVID-19, but applications are due by Oct. 31.

If you wanted to determine, tomorrow, if your child was on track in reading or math, where would you turn? What if you wanted to know how your child was doing in a particular math concept, like the Pythagorean theorem?

Student test scores continued to fall last year, but new data shows Illinois’ students are on the path to recovering from the learning loss that occurred during the pandemic.

It isn’t as if America’s schools were going gangbusters before the pandemic. The Programme for International Student Assessment has consistently found that American students lag behind other advanced, industrialized countries.

Eighth-grade math scores took the biggest hit in Nebraska on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

State and national data released earlier this week show lower test scores among students. It’s being attributed to the challenges many families faced during the COVID-19 pandemic.