This column was written by Liam Julian. The No Child Left Behind Act is up for reauthorization. Putting aside the philosophical problems that stem from increased federal interference in education, the ...

As another school year is getting well under way, educators are faced with starting the process all over again for preparing students for standardized testing. It's not something that can be put off ...

A mixed class of Year 2 and 3 students — equivalent to first and second grades in the United States — practices fractions at Beach Haven School in Auckland, New Zealand. The government has instituted ...

How many fifth-graders in the U.S. took the AP Calculus AB exam last year? Radu Rosu of Chapel Hill wanted to find the answer. He knew of one child who did - his 10-year-old son, Paul Rosu, who earned ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. An abysmal ...

A number of courses across the university use either the Miami Math Placement exam or an ACT or SAT mathematics test subscore as a prerequisite. Since ACT and SAT scores are optional, all incoming ...

Young children can perform certain kinds of math operations before ever receiving any kind formal math training, a new study reports. The finding suggests children have an inborn intuition about math ...

Math remained a struggle. English language arts had a stronger showing. And with science — this past year, at least — it was hard to tell. Results from state exams taken in the spring were released ...

The College Board released its 2016 SAT college-entrance test results today, see report here from the Washington Post “SAT scores fall modestly in a year of transition for college admission test.” As ...

The chart above (with the red ellipses added) is from the New York Times article “Where Boys Outperform Girls in Math: Rich, White and Suburban Districts” and is based on 260 million standardized ...