A reading assignment on a chalkboard in a Massachusetts high school. In Massachusetts, the states’ standardized English test scores for third- through eighth-graders fell an additional three ...

AT THE NUMBERS. REPORTER: WHAT IS CALLED THE NATION’S REPORT CARD IS BASED ON A SAMPLE OF FOURTH AND EIGHTH GRADERS TESTED EVERY FEW YEARS INCLUDING 10,000 STUDENTS HERE IN MASSACHUSETTS, WHILE THE ...

The United States is facing a shortage of advanced scientists and engineers, but Massachusetts is doing its part to help the nation regain its edge. So says the American Institute of Physics (AIP), ...

TONIGHT TO BREAK DOWN THE FINDINGS. SARAH BEN AND ERIKA, THIS WAS AN EDUCATION ADVOCACY GROUP, ADVOCACY GROUP THAT SURVEYED MORE THAN 1500 PARENTS ABOUT HOW THEY PERCEIVE THEIR CHILDREN’S MATH SKILLS ...

Elementary school teachers play a crucial role in introducing students to math, yet many of those educators struggle mightily with the task. Some elementary teachers took only a little bit of math ...

BOSTON (SHNS/WWLP) – As studies show that American students are falling behind their peers in other countries in math and science, a new local poll shows about one-third of Bay State parents are ...

Since the Massachusetts Education Reform Act of 1993, schools in the state have focused on strengthening students comprehension of so-called STEM topics — science, technology, engineering and ...

With this school year approaching, Kristin Hoppe-Doucette enrolled her daughter Kate in a secondary math program this summer in an effort to help bolster the seventh grader’s skills after noticing ...

When states adopted Common Core’s mathematics standards, they were told (among other things) that these standards would make all high-school students “college- and-career ready” and strengthen the ...

Includes updates and/or revisions. A host of recent studies have examined how U.S. students’ mathematics skills compare against those of their foreign peers. Now, a new analysis probes a more precise ...