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Kaicey Baylor joined WJZ as a reporter in October 2024. Before coming to Charm City, she spent the last three years as a morning reporter and multiskilled journalist at 13News Now in Norfolk, Virginia ...

Test after test of U.S. students’ reading and math abilities have shown scores declining since the pandemic. Now, new results show that it’s not just children whose skills have fallen over the past ...

While Pennsylvania students remain slightly above the national average for reading and math scores, the latest results of a test known as the nation’s report card underline the ongoing aftershocks of ...

WASHINGTON -- A decadelong slide in high schoolers' reading and math performance persisted during the covid-19 pandemic, with 12th graders' scores dropping to their lowest level in more than 20 years, ...

The assessment, also known as the Nation’s Report Card, tested around 23,000 eighth-grade students from 600 schools across the country from January to March 2024 to measure their knowledge of key ...

A larger share of Colorado students met or exceeded state standards on math tests in fourth through eighth grade this year compared with 2024. Literacy growth was mostly flat at the elementary level, ...

Michigan reflected a nationwide trend when it saw student test scores decline for fourth- and eighth-graders in reading and for eighth-graders in math between 2022 and 2024, according to national test ...

Fourth and eighth graders in Tennessee's public schools showed growth and outperformed their national peers in reading and math in the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress. The results, ...

Almost five years have passed since COVID-19 first disrupted America's schools, and new data, known as the Nation's Report Card, offers cause for hope — and concern. The good news: In math, many ...

New national tests show Iowa's fourth and eighth graders scored at or above average in reading and math assessments compared to the rest of the country in 2024. However, the results are still lower ...