A new school year has begun with plenty of promise. Students are returning to classrooms ready to learn, build on what they know, and move one step closer

The New Jersey Department of Education last week released preliminary proficiency rates for students in grades 3 through 9. The results signal post-pandemic learning declines have continued.

New Jersey's high school graduation rate just hit a record high. Its students' readiness for college math didn't follow, with a 30+ point gap between the grad rate and math proficiency. A new report…

The prolonged decline has no clear cause.

A large randomized evaluation of AI tutoring in U.S. public schools set out to test Khan Academy's AI tutor, Khanmigo. But the study’s most interesting finding is about the power of well-structured…

A new law bans "grading floors," which require a minimum grade of 50% for assignments or grading periods.

We also need transparency about how the state plans to go about defining different levels of student achievement.

Since the College Board began changing its grading criteria for Advanced Placement exams, scores have climbed rapidly.

Districts where students missed more school days were slower to return to pre-pandemic achievement levels, NWEA found.

Educators will return to classrooms in September without usual insight on their students' strengths, weaknesses

The findings add another wrinkle to an ongoing debate over retention policies tied to reading scores.

Career and technical education deserves its growing support but cannot compensate for a diploma that no longer signals readiness. States seeking stronger workforce and college pathways should start…

Bronson: When a Tennessee district aligned instruction across classrooms and tutoring, students were more likely to engage in grade-level work.

By Courtney Smith-Nelson Surprise! Pop quiz time. Can you solve the following problems without using Google or AI? (Don’t worry — calculators are allowed.) 1. If the price of a box of cereal…