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The facts tell a different story; school funding does not play a causal role in success

Understanding how our system of government is designed to work is not only necessary to evaluate its performance, but to keep in place the elements that make our liberty possible.

Dire results on the Program for International Student Assessment should start conversations. Here's how.

The Program for International Student Assessment shows U.S. students lost less ground than their global peers during the pandemic.

It has become popular for politicians to claim that being fair means being "color-blind." But ignoring race perpetuates inequality.

The Big Apple was heading off a fiscal cliff even before the migrant surge.

Scrambling to improve literacy rates among Hoosier students, state lawmakers seem adamant to toughen Indiana’s policy that requires most kids who are deficient in reading to repeat the third grade.

Math achievement tumbled for American 15-year-olds between 2018 and 2022, according to the latest results from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), an exam comparing academic performance in the U.S. against that of dozens of other countries. In an encouraging development, however, their reading and science skills appear to be undiminished over the last […]

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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.