A new provision in the Arkansas LEARNS Act that took effect at the start of the school year will force students to repeat the ...

A law passed last year requiring clearer test score reports could be scrapped after Gov. Mike Kehoe’s budget dropped funding ...

STAAR tests are far from the only standardized exams students take each year. Some districts also give students optional ...

Advocates for the law have long argued the point isn’t to hold kids back, but make sure they get the support they need to be ready for fourth grade.

About 23% of Louisiana third graders were at risk of being held back last spring due to low reading scores. But after students received exemptions or improved their scores, fewer than 3% were required ...

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is trying to increase scores on the DIBELS exam, a test that measures early literacy skills for students in kindergarten through third grade. One school is trying out a ...

Utah wants 70% of students in kindergarten through 3rd grade to read at their age level, but only about half do. Students in ...

Rather, hope emerges in the most unlikely of places: three states here in the Deep South that long represented America’s ...

Big Ten road games against the No. 2 Wolverines on Saturday and the 10th-ranked Spartans on Tuesday loom large for the Bruins ...

A bill advancing to the Missouri Senate would require all public schools in the state to conduct universal gifted testing for students before third grade.

Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana traditionally were America’s educational basement, but now they are showing blue states a ...

What I see is schools fighting for their students. These states have created a structure that closely monitors each school’s ...