State and federal education spending for K-12 schools in Washington is way up, but test scores in fourth grade reading and ...

Eighth grade test scores in Maryland have been declining for many years — and not just because schools shut down during the coronavirus pandemic. Math and reading scores tested annually have steadily ...

The test, given every two years, reports scores of our nation's children in reading and math at the fourth grade and eighth grade levels. AEI characterizes the most recent results as a "five-alarm ...

diminishing direct instruction and fluency from teaching math facts and algorithms; wording that discouraged taking algebra in eighth grade, giving advanced students a head start to calculus in 12th ...

Maryland State Education Association President Paul Lemle told us the policy also calls for a minimum of 60 minutes of math instruction per day for kindergarten through eighth grade students.