Their critics from the left are skeptical of reforms designed to lift performance. And though these critics support public schools as community centers and providers of child care and secure ...

"The goal was to reach 95% in the six areas: Social, emotional, language, cognitive, literacy and mathematics," Glenetske said. For the 2023-2024 school year, 94.9% of the students met the standards, ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — It’s not necessarily a competition between boys and girls when it comes to reading, but if it were a competition, girls would win. For the 2023-2024 school year, Florida’s ...

A Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup poll conducted last fall on community attitudes toward public schools reveals that 77 percent of Americans blame the academic achievement gap between poor students and their ...

The latest Nation’s Report Card reveals a concerning decline in reading achievement across the U.S. This webinar brings together education and literacy experts to examine the root causes and outline ...

Successive governments in many countries have been trying to close the achievement gap for disadvantaged students. Billions of pounds have been spent in the UK on an extensive range of programmes and ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Oct. 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Students from the urban environment make up a significant portion of school populations nationwide. Many of these scholars face various challenges, ...

How can schools close the achievement gap? The achievement gap refers to measurable differences in academic performance between groups of students, usually tracked through test scores and graduation ...

Ah, the achievement gap. So much trouble to fix, so why bother trying? That seems to be the attitude in Washington, where pundits have spent the last several months ripping the current focus on ...

Students walk off a school bus on the first day of school Tuesday at Jason Lee Middle School. (Taylor Balkom/The Columbian) Work to close educational achievement gaps for several minority groups in ...

Wisconsin continues to have the largest racial disparities in math and reading scores in the nation, according to the latest results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as ...