STORY: Teenagers' mathematics and reading skills are in an unprecedented decline across dozens of countries. And school closures during the global health crisis are only partly to blame. That’s ...

Debates over how to teach math echo the conflicts over reading instruction, and some issues are similar. But unlike math, reading—in its full sense—draws on everything a person has been able to learn.

WASHINGTON -- A decadelong slide in high schoolers' reading and math performance persisted during the covid-19 pandemic, with 12th graders' scores dropping to their lowest level in more than 20 years, ...

LOS ANGELES -- Math and reading scores among America's 13-year-olds fell to their lowest levels in decades, with math scores plunging by the largest margin ever recorded, according to the results of a ...

Kaicey Baylor joined WJZ as a reporter in October 2024. Before coming to Charm City, she spent the last three years as a morning reporter and multiskilled journalist at 13News Now in Norfolk, Virginia ...

U.S. students’ math scores lag behind also dreary reading ones and have struggled even before the pandemic, but changes to the math curriculum to combat the problem have been slow moving. Over the ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Approximately half of all New York City public school students are proficient in math and reading, according to citywide results of state test scores from 2023. The city ...