American students are struggling with reading. And the country's education system hasn't found a way to make it better. In fact, fourth and eighth grade reading scores on the National Assessment of ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - The nationwide drop in scores this week on the NAEP exams known as the "Nation's Report Card" has backers of the Common Core bracing for attack. The Common Core - new multi-state ...

Good news for Connecticut fourth graders when it comes to math. Not so good news for much of the rest of the nation when it comes to both math and — especially — reading. Overall scores in both ...

Curious about the Common Core tests that have generated so much debate and so many low scores in recent months? Now you can check them out yourself. The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for ...

With fewer questions and no time limits, this month’s Common Core tests in English Language Arts and math will still be a challenge for city students. It’s the fourth year of the statewide exams that ...

Dissatisfaction with the Common Core and the emphasis on standardized testing led to a number of Lower Hudson Valley elementary and middle school students opting out of state math exams that began ...

A correction to an earlier version of this article has been appended to the end of the article. When Veera Sinha was a little girl in India, her father asked his kids to solve math puzzles in their ...

Forty-two states and the District of Columbia are now using the same math and English standards, but the tests they use to determine how well students have mastered them still vary significantly. One ...