Students Show Mixed Science, Math Scores
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U.S. eighth-graders are gaining on their peers across the globe in science and math, but fourth-graders are being passed as their test scores remain stagnant, according to an international review of school performance.
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Welsh students are outperforming the rest of the UK as they receive their A-level results.
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There are claims some schools told students the answers in a flawed  A-level practical exam.
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Indiana&#39;s fourth- and eighth-grade students scored higher on math and science tests than the national and international averages, according to results released today.
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A study says high levels of computer technology can improve school results, but the picture is mixed.
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Schools are looking to use an increasingly popular way to analyzing test scores, which tracks the progress of students as they move from grade to grade.
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The report says students are catching up to their worldwide counterparts but fourth-graders are not. By Michael Dobbs / Washington Post.
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Some 2,500 teachers in the city are being measured on how much their students improve on standardized tests.
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For nearly six years, the federal government has defined school success mainly by how many students pass state reading and math tests. But a growing number of educators and lawmakers are pushing to give more weight to graduation rates, achievement in science and history and even physical education.
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The nation's fourth- and eighth-graders continue to improve steadily in mathematics, and fourth-grade reading achievement is on the rise, according to test scores released yesterday. Black and Hispanic students are also making broad gains, though significant achievement gaps persist.
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Steve Schmidt&#39;s social studies classroom No. 259 at Lowell High School has turned into a science lab of sorts. His science department colleagues have been measuring the carbon dioxide levels in his room and
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The national test of student math skills is filled with easy questions, raising doubts about recent gains in achievement tests, a study contends.
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Maryland school officials proudly noted last week that more than 90 percent of students in the Class of 2009 expected to earn a diploma had passed one of four tests required to graduate. But testing data provided to The Washington Post by local school systems indicate that the number of students who...
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Parents choose a school more because of its location than its exam results, a big survey suggests.
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By MIKE BAILEY  Tiffani Pekkala thought her essay and pennant design highlighting space exploration would simply earn extra credits in her science class at Camas' Liberty Middle School.
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A study concluded that high school students are earning better grades, but their reading skills are not improving.
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By Anna L. Mallory, The Charleston Gazette, W.Va.  Sep. 22--One by one, students stacked 1,000-page red, blue and green engineering textbooks atop the cardboard structure they'd spent more than an hour creating.