Tests are graded with an A+ and an F. (Photo by Getty Images) COLUMBIA — Fewer than half of South Carolina third- through eighth-grade students can do math as expected for their grade level, according ...

U.S. 4th and 8th grade students are performing worse in math, and somewhat worse in reading, than they were two years ago, according to new data from a national test. The results were a surprise to ...

Includes updates and/or revisions. After marching steadily upward for the past two decades, students’ scores in 4th grade mathematics have stagnated on a prominent nationwide exam. That result seems ...

Portland Public Schools will continue offering algebra to select eighth-graders but will reset its bar for which students can enter the fast-tracked math class that precedes it. That’s a pivot, given ...