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Twenty years ago, cognitive psychologist Elizabeth Spelke took a strong position in an ongoing public debate. "There are no ...
Did you know there are more ways to shuffle a deck of cards than there are atoms in the universe? Seems crazy, but it's true.
While the percentage of Texas students meeting grade-level standards bounced back in reading, that’s still not the case in ...
The largest increase in year-over-year performance within HISD was on the sixth-grade math exam, which saw the percentage of students approaching grade level climb by 9% in 2025. Additionally, the ...
Math STAAR scores increased overall by two percentage points across third through eighth grades, with fifth and seventh graders seeing a decline in students who scored on grade level or higher.
About 43% of students met grade-level standards for math, a 2 percentage point increase from the previous year, but still shy of the 50% reached in 2019.
MSCS improved third-grade reading proficiency by almost 4% between 2023 and 2024. The second week of Memphis-Shelby County Schools ' Summer Learning Academy wraps up June 13.
MSCS's Summer Learning Academy is mandatory for some third-graders based on TCAP scores. Around 3,100 third-graders are enrolled in the summer program, but the number required due to the reading law ...
It's an old joke that there are three kinds of people in the world: those who are good at math and those who aren't.