– Stricter reading and math scoring lowers 2025 proficiency rates statewide. – Only 27% of third graders are proficient in reading, 33% in math. – State says lower scores reflect tougher standards, ...

New Delhi: In a boost to India’s fight against tuberculosis, apex health research body ICMR has validated new indigenously developed tools that could bolster the country’s diagnostic capacity and ...

With winter on the way and temperatures starting to drop, air quality is becoming a hot topic. It’s not just environmentalists and health experts talking about it anymore, even people are discussing ...

Swiss-based Roche announced this month that it has received U.S. regulatory clearance for a less-complex vitamin D test in the United States, which the company said opens the door to more efficient ...

A new £11.7m diagnostic centre that will "take the pressure off" a county's hospitals has been officially opened. The Corby Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) at the Willowbrook Health Centre site will ...

North Carolina students are making big gains in math, though they remain behind the proficiency rates of 2018 and 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic closed schools, new data from the North Carolina ...

The latest Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program test results indicate that nearly half of Maryland’s elementary and middle school students cannot read proficiently, and more than half are not ...

San Francisco Unified School District elementary- and middle-school students began the school year with a new math curriculum, and officials touting the pilot program’s successes say the districtwide ...

The Bronx is learning — at least in charter schools. Students from charter schools in the borough’s poorest neighborhoods, including the South Bronx, excelled on state reading and math exams — with ...

A searchable list of school-level test results can be found at the bottom of this story. Reading and math scores shot up across New York City’s public schools last school year, according to state test ...