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Commentary This is part 21 in a series examining education in the United States. When it comes to education policy, ...

Spending more on education is not delivering higher test scores for American students.

The number of students being educated in American schools dropped by nearly three million in the last year to the lowest share in more than two decades as the coronavirus pandemic sent families looking for new arrangements.

Whereas reading is knowledge, writing is agency, power and influence.

Detroit Points the Way from Boston Review. Detroit offers a case study of what Breznitz wants to see cities achieve.

Readers suggest reasons for the drop in student test scores, including the adoption of new curriculums and attention spans shorted by technology.

Thirteen-year-old children in American public schools were not quite as good at math and reading in 2019 and 2020 as they were in 2012.This is despite the fact that American

Thirteen-year-olds saw unprecedented declines in both reading and math between 2012 and 2020, according to scores released this morning from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Consistent with several years of previous data, the results point to a clear and widening cleavage between America’s highest- and lowest-performing students and raise urgent questions about how […]

New research from Michigan State University shows that school districts intended to retain 229 students this school year out of more than 3,000 eligible based on low reading scores under Michigan’s Read by Grade Three law.

U.S. Education Secretary reappoints Dana Boyd to board overseeing Nation’s Report Card