Every year, thousands of college students from across the U.S. and Canada give up a full Saturday before finals begin to take a notoriously difficult, 6-hour math test — and not for a grade, but for ...

Blame the test. Blame the teachers. Just don’t blame the kids. An independent panel appointed to look into why an alarming number of high school kids bombed out on the June Math A Regents Exam has ...

The architects of the Common Core State Standards for mathematics explicitly aimed to sacrifice breadth for depth, but that proposition has raised questions about whether assessments can be developed ...

For the city’s stressed-out third-graders, one math exam plus one reading exam equals – done! Some 80,000 8-year-olds survived their high-stakes math exam yesterday after sweating through the reading ...

Math teachers are hard to find in South Dakota, and some K-12 leaders wonder whether a challenging certification test is creating a bottleneck. Almost half of aspiring teachers in South Dakota who ...

Former President Donald Trump claimed to have again “aced” an increasingly difficult cognitive test involving intricate math problems, but experts say the test is easy, and a mock exam contained ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. An abysmal ...

Dozens of city high schools sought to have students’ Regents scores scrubbed this year — and now other kids are complaining about the state’s tough new algebra exam administered last week. The state ...

Most California students did not pass statewide reading, writing and math tests given in spring 2023. There was a slight improvement in math scores, but English language arts performance stagnated.

Ellen Peters receives funding from the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health. Brittany Shoots-Reinhard receives funding from the National Science Foundation and National ...