A new study suggests that the methods most states are using to judge schools’ academic progress may produce an incomplete—and possibly misleading—picture of the jobs the schools are doing. Read ...

Consider a household with four family members, two adults and two small children. We could compute the average size and weight of the family, but we would end up with data points that don’t describe ...

A ‘Learning Recession’ in U.S. Schools? An overwhelming majority of U.S. states are seeing below-average test scores in reading and math, far beyond the COVID-19 pandemic’s disruptions, according to a ...

Average test scores for 13-year-old students in both mathematics and reading have declined several points since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, building on a decline that’s been trending over the ...