Schools are required to test the progress of their English learners each year to determine whether they still need language instruction services or can exit out of such programs. In close to 40 states ...

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ALBANY — Less than half of New York students scored at or above grade level in English and math, according to the grade 3-8 assessment results. In English, the results were slightly higher than they ...

English spelling is hard and needs to be taught explicitly, but most American schools fail miserably to teach children to spell. Kids who can't spell often do not read and write with proficiency ...

The test scores are in for Tri-Cities students and, at first glance, they don’t look good. At the top end, Richland beat the state average, but more than a third of its students hadn’t mastered ...

This story was updated on Oct. 18 to include comments from districts and on Oct. 25 to describe kindergarten absentee data as including students enrolled in transitional kindergarten. In the second ...

“That comes from the teacher building a great relationship with the kid and that kid to want to give them their best.” Preliminary results from algebra 1, English 1 and 2, biology and U.S. history ...

New Jersey students continued to show some progress in the third year of post-pandemic state testing, but average scores still remain below pre-pandemic levels, according to new numbers released by ...