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He called for overhauling school testing and accreditation

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WASHINGTON — Thanks to the Supreme Court, affirmative action in college admissions is effectively dead. But while racial preferences were the wrong solution, the underlying problem is real: We have

The National Assessment of Educational Progress, the most trusted barometer of children’s classroom progress, has just delivered bad but expected news. Post COVID-19 lockdown testing found that …

Time was, when the school year ended, parents worried about “summer learning loss.” Nowadays, there is less learning to worry about losing. This is the 40

Less than a quarter of the students who received a learning acceleration grant are from households whose family income does not exceed 300% of the federal poverty level.

In some respects, the children of this nation are now less educated than their parents.

In 2020, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer agreed to provide the Detroit Public Schools Community District with $94 million to fund literacy programs. That money is finally coming through.

Jill Biden claimed Joe Biden is "the education president" in her address to a teachers union, but the nation's test scores are reportedly at a historic low.