Alabama made the biggest gains in the country in fourth grade math this year, new data shows, with scores reaching within one point of the national average. The state’s dramatic climb on the Nation’s ...

The 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores underline a continuing decline in educational achievement in the United States. The Institute of Education Sciences’ tendency to ...

In fourth grade, students focus most on using all four operations - addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division - to solve multi-step word problems involving multi-digit numbers. Fourth-grade ...

Students are barely beginning to recover from a historic decline in math performance. Across every grade and region of the country, students in every racial, income, and disability group have ...

Michigan reflected a nationwide trend when it saw student test scores decline for fourth- and eighth-graders in reading and for eighth-graders in math between 2022 and 2024, according to national test ...

Many students who lacked hands-on, in-person teachings due to the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdowns and school closures are now struggling with basic math at the college level, according ...