Experts suggest the COVID-19 pandemic, technology and chronic absenteeism are potential factors in the decline. The U.S. Education secretary called the results "devastating" and a justification for ...
Mindy Ramberg (far right) and her family. Screengrab from Facebook post by Marissa Dubon-Ramberg. A “beloved” 5th grade teacher and a mother of two collapsed after being stung by a bee, then died at a ...
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Landyn Davis, the Virginia Beach boy hit in the head by a stray bullet in his home back in February of 2024, started his first day of 5th grade on Monday. This was Landyn's first ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A decade-long slide in high schoolers’ reading and math performance persisted during the COVID-19 pandemic, with 12th graders’ scores dropping to their lowest level in more than 20 ...
An overwhelming majority of states saw significant score declines among fourth- and eighth-graders in math and reading between 2019 and 2022, with students posting the largest score declines ever ...
A century ago, India’s tigers were on the brink of extinction. Slowly, their numbers have rebounded. But that ecological success has prompted a dire problem—and a race to save many of them from ...