Despite promises to focus on the growing racial and income divide among the nation’s students, new fall testing data show academic gaps have worsened, falling heaviest on some of the most vulnerable ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Natalie Wexler is an education writer focusing on literacy. Educators think it’s important to teach science and social studies to ...

Students like math and science more than they did in 2009, but they like reading less, especially in elementary school. That’s the upshot of an analysis released Wednesday by the National Center for ...

With U.S. students’ math and reading scores showing statistically significant declines on a national test for the first time in more than two decades, advocates on all sides have begun pointing ...

Given every two years to a sample of America’s children, the National Assessment of Educational Progress is considered one of the best gauges of the academic progress of the U.S. school system. The ...