Why U.S. Test Scores Are in a ‘Generation-Long Decline’

The data includes third- through eighth-grade test scores for districts in 40 states and the District of Columbia, as of the ...

Kids' test scores began declining way before COVID. These schools are making gains

Remember those devastating learning losses that began during the pandemic? Turns out, they began years before COVID-19. Some ...

Kids are in a ‘reading recession,’ as test scores continue to decline

Researchers are warning that the U.S. is experiencing a reading recession, a slide that predates the COVID-19 pandemic.

Look Up Your School District’s Test Scores

Below, you can look up how test scores for your district have changed since 2015. (Note that some states — New York among ...
The Baltimore Sun

New Maryland test scores for English, math show little change across schools

Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program standardized test results from spring 2024 reflected little overall improvement in English language arts and math, according to data released Tuesday by the ...

America’s Math Crisis

We teach the wrong math, tested in the wrong way, writes Ted Dintersmith.
9NEWS

Can you answer these eighth grade STAAR test math questions?

It's that time of year, when students around the Lone Star State take the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness, or STAAR test, to test, well...their academic readiness. The standardized ...

Oregon enables students to skip state tests and it’s undermining improvement, experts say

Oregon was one of four states left out of a major national analysis because fewer than 94% of students took state tests, ...
The University of Chicago Chronicle

Anxiety affects test scores even among students who excel at math

The term math anxiety doesn’t call to mind a person who excels at the subject. But students who perform extremely well on math exams can suffer from such anxiety, which has a surprisingly powerful ...