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 ...

The nation’s 4th and 8th graders have inched up in mathematics, new test data show, but the results are more mixed in reading, with 4th grade scores flat compared with two years ago. Overall, ...

SEATTLE — State and federal education spending for K-12 schools in Washington is way up, but test scores in fourth grade reading and eighth grade math are dropping, according to a non-partisan ...

America’s children have continued to lose ground on reading skills in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and have made little improvement in math, according to the latest results of an exam known as ...

Buoyed by their successful strategies for early literacy, California legislators and advocacy groups are calling for a parallel approach to math.

Alabama’s 2022 law reshaped math instruction at the elementary level by providing money for all schools to hire math coaches ...

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 pandemic has smacked American students back to the last century in math and reading achievement, according to the tests known as the Nation’s Report Card. Results for students who took the test in ...

A new bill would require districts to screen for — and help — students falling behind in math in the early grades, just as they now do for students with challenges in reading.

North Carolina fourth- and eighth-grade students scored worse on math and reading exams this spring than before the pandemic, new federal data show. The drops in math scores are bigger than ever seen ...