A New Jersey law that removes a requirement for teachers to pass a reading, writing and mathematics test for certification will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2025. “We need more teachers,” Democratic Sen.

Teachers in New Jersey will no longer be required to pass a basic reading, writing and mathematics test to be eligible for public schools, according to a new law. Act 1669, which was signed into law ...

I taught sixth-grade math for 24 years and found that the biggest impediment to teaching at that level was that so many students had never learned the basic math facts for addition, subtraction, and, ...

Newly released data from a crucial national test revealed historically low scores in two major subjects for 12th graders across the country, further emphasizing that U.S. students have struggled to ...

California students face a math emergency, as newly released NAEP results show math achievement sliding to historic lows.

More than half of city school kids still can’t handle basic math or English, even though this year’s state exams scores ticked up slightly, according to state data released Thursday. While state ...

Half of Pennsylvania’s high school seniors who took the state’s basic math test scored so low that they’re eligible to take it again. Preliminary numbers compiled Thursday show 63,094 students, or 51 ...

In both math and science, the divide between the nation’s highest- and lowest-performing 8th graders continues to widen on national and international tests, and ongoing gaps in access and support to ...