For 50-plus years, students in grades 4, 8, and 12 have taken national standardized tests that assess reading and math proficiency and are designed to measure overall academic achievement. But long ...

More than half of Louisiana children from poor families start kindergarten without basic reading skills — and most fail to catch up by third grade, a critical year for literacy development, according ...

Emma Lambert easily passed the writing portion of the basic skills test required of Pennsylvania teaching candidates. The math section took a few more attempts. As for reading? She failed 12 times ...

Gen Z can't seem to handle some surprisingly basic adult skills that were once considered normal parts of growing up. Things ...

Children in Bangladesh are entering secondary school without mastering basic foundational skills, with a staggering 91 percent of Grade 5 students in mathematics and 65 percent in Bangla remaining at ...

The New Jersey Education Association, the state’s largest teachers union, has asked its members to urge Gov. Phil Murphy to sign a bill into law that would eliminate the basic skills tests in reading, ...