Los Angeles Unified Supt. Alberto Carvalho greets students and families at Main Street Elementary School on the first day of the 2024-25 school year. (Al Seib / For The Times) Test scores for ...

Across the United States, the numbers are moving in the wrong direction. National exams that once showed slow but steady ...

A Los Angeles Unified middle school student studies during a seventh- and eighth-grade English and Social Studies class in spring 2023. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) Los Angeles public school ...

The State Board of Education has selected four new labels to describe how well students are doing state tests. There was debate over the best way to describe students who are not proficient. The new ...

Experts don’t really know. Leading theories include screens, school expectations, and the pandemic.

For the first time since COVID-19 hit, California students demonstrated slight across-the-board gains in math, English and science according to statewide standardized testing data released Thursday.

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 ...

Philadelphia students are performing the best they have in math in years, showing steady improvement since the pandemic.

Minnesota students’ reading and math scores on state proficiency tests have leveled off a bit, but they still haven’t recovered from a big dip during the pandemic, according to data released Thursday ...

Just over half of Wisconsin's grade school students are meeting, or exceed, state standards for math and English language arts, according to data from standardized tests released Tuesday. What that ...