National test scores released Monday confirm the grim news that’s been coming from state exams: Students across the country saw significant academic setbacks during the pandemic, especially in math.

Almost five years have passed since COVID-19 first disrupted America's schools, and new data, known as the Nation's Report Card, offers cause for hope — and concern. The good news: In math, many ...

Want more state education news? Sign up for The Alabama Education Lab’s free, weekly newsletter, Ed Chat. Alabama’s fourth graders leapfrogged other states up the rankings on the National Assessment ...

Global data on math achievement is revealing a dismaying trend: Girls are doing worse than boys — and the margins are huge.

Michigan reflected a nationwide trend when it saw student test scores decline for fourth- and eighth-graders in reading and for eighth-graders in math between 2022 and 2024, according to national test ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Fourth-grade student scores in Ohio on a test known as the Nation’s Report Card show little improvement since the COVID-19 pandemic. And in some areas, they are worse or have not ...