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A calculus class may not be the first place you’d think to find oral exams. But Robin Pemantle is a longtime fan. A math professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Pemantle believes that having ...
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The college entrance exam that Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth hailed as the nation's new "gold standard," promising to open doors at some of America's most elite institutions, is instead seeing its ...
This past school year, Cambridge, Massachusetts, placed every eighth grader in Algebra I. It didn’t go well. Ultimately, more than 60% of rising ninth graders will repeat the course. The consequences ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Younger students have regained ground academically after the pandemic's disruptions while older students' test scores continue to stagnate, according to the latest testing data ...
New federal test scores show younger students are making gains in reading and math — after years of declines. "I think this is an optimistic release," Matthew Soldner, acting commissioner of the ...
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A ‘Learning Recession’ in U.S. Schools? An overwhelming majority of U.S. states are seeing below-average test scores in reading and math, far beyond the COVID-19 pandemic’s disruptions, according to a ...
Cell phone bans in schools are working—at least as far as keeping kids off their phones during school, according to a new working paper. But the bans, which have been touted by researchers, educators ...