The Hechinger Report is a national nonprofit newsroom that reports on one topic: education. Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get stories like this delivered directly to your inbox. Consider ...

American students continue to struggle in both reading and math, and the gap between the highest and lowest performing kids ...

Across the country there were significant declines in reading scores for both 4th and 8th graders. The only subject area with ...

The superintendent championed a ‘back to basics’ approach to literacy, and eschewed the ‘shiny things’ that stand in the way ...

Sputnik was the name of the first Soviet satellite, which was launched Oct. 4, 1957. It caught the United States by surprise ...

The new results continue the record, going back almost two decades, of MPS results being among the weakest in the country.

Fourth and eighth graders haven't made significant improvements to reading and math scores on the “nation’s report card,” ...

A new superintendent is trying to improve Houston’s public schools through strictly structured teaching. The district says it ...

Reading and math scores on the nation’s report card show that students haven’t rebounded from the pandemic—and in some cases, achievement is still declining.

While Mississippi did not make any major waves in math or reading in 2024 compared to 2022, scores in some categories did improve.