New research finds social-emotional learning programs in schools lead to higher test scores and better GPAs. Here's why.

A few years after Louisiana pushed schools to adopt a new, systemic approach to reading instruction, education officials want to revamp the way students learn math. Last month, the state emerged as an ...

All those long multiplication tables. Timed tests and “mad minutes” of worksheet problem-solving. Fluency drills. Somehow, getting kids to know their basic math facts continues to be at the heart of ...

Social-emotional learning has been swept up in bitter political fights over what should be taught in schools as some critics—including some high-profile conservative activist groups like Moms for ...

Across the country, parents are discovering that what their children bring home from school looks very little like what they once learned. It isn’t just math — reading lessons, writing expectations, ...

As educators, community members and parents work to help kids catch up from pandemic-related learning loss through accelerated learning and high dosage tutoring, national test scores published Monday ...

When it comes to how American students are recovering from the pandemic, it's a tale of two subjects. States across the country have made some progress in math over the past two years, while in ...

State Education Commissioner Betty Rosa & Co. are moving to recommend that teachers stop giving timed math quizzes lest they ...

Fred Smith, a former test analyst for the city Department of Education, said the stats make the state's tests "virtually useless" as a gauge of student performance. J.Conrad Williams, Jr./Newsday RM ...

The share of students proficient in math, English and science is up for the first time since the pandemic – but passing rates remain well below pre-pandemic levels. Fourth-grade students wait for the ...