Math and reading test scores for the nation's 13-year-old students fell between 2012 and 2020 for the first time in the nearly 50-year history of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) ...

The average composite ACT score in 2005 held steady at 20.9 for the second consecutive year. Yet officials at ACT Inc., which administers the test, said the results suggest that many of the test ...

Data from federal standardized test scores points to another startling effect the COVID-19 pandemic had on America's children, with numbers indicating that reading and math scores for 13-year-olds ...

Math and reading scores have taken another blow as schools struggle to rein in pandemic learning loss, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Average math scores for ...

A sharp rise in students without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators and policymakers.

Minnesota test scores held steady in 2025 — still leaving about half of students short of grade-level benchmarks in math and reading, new data shows. Black and American Indian students, and students ...