California may soon test children on math as early as kindergarten in effort to curb dismal scores

A bill moving through the California Legislature would test students as early as kindergarten on math. It's part of an effort ...
Education Week

Digital Literacy Isn’t a One-Off Lesson. How Teachers Can Build Students’ Skills

The ability to navigate the torrent requires social-emotional skill, not just fact-checking, a researcher says.
Smithsonian Magazine

100 Years Ago, Students Across the U.S. Took the First SAT. Today, Relatively Few Colleges Require the Test. Where Is It Headed?

The standardized exam has evolved over the past century, all in the name of testing for college readiness. Now, it has become ...
AOL

If Berkeley students can’t read, K-12 schools need remediation

BERKELEY, CA, FEBRUARY 19, 2026: Students pass by Sather Gate on the campus of University of California, Berkeley on Thursday, February 19, 2026.(Christina House / Los Angeles Times via Getty... It’s ...
The New York Times

Younger Students’ Test Scores Bounce Back After the Pandemic

A national test found surprising progress among 9-year-olds, who are fully caught up in reading. But 13-year-olds have shown no improvement. By Sarah Mervosh After years of dire test scores coming out ...
Futurism

College Students Are Rapidly Losing the Ability to Read

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The Boston Globe

Pandemic rebound: Young students recover lost math and reading skills while their older peers lag

Newly released results from a national assessment offered a rare bright spot for America’s students, showing that 9-year-olds appear to have regained some of the math and reading skills lost during ...
Wall Street Journal

Requiring the SAT Test Boosts Student Success

I well understand the frustration of the University of California’s math and science professors who are urging that college-entrance exams be reinstated as an admission requirement (“California ...
Houston Chronicle

How to see STAAR test results for your student. Here's what to know.

The Texas Education Agency will release results for State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness end-of-course exams Wednesday, offering a glimpse into how the state's high school students ...
Polygon

Don't fret Critical Role critters, Vox Machina's world isn't over yet

When Critical Role's Campaign 3: Bells Hells concluded, it was quickly followed by news of major changes for the popular Dungeons & Dragons actual play show. Rather than being set in Exandria, the ...
The Spokesman-Review

EWU student falls onto Cheney grain silo, in critical condition

A 21-year-old EWU student was flown to a regional trauma center early Friday morning following a fall onto the top of a Cheney grain silo. Cheney Fire Department responded to a call that the young man ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

My Students Can’t Read

S ix weeks into the term, I assigned my rhetoric and writing students a 20-page article. It was the same length I had assigned for five years and the same length I had read without complaint as an ...