In last year’s academic achievement assessment, 1 out of 7 third-year middle school students remained at the lowest level in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. American schools and the ways students learn have changed since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic five years ago. Educators ...

Most of the United States saw declines in reading and math achievement on standardized tests between 2019 and 2022. Those declines happened in both fourth- and eighth-grade in a large majority of ...

Starting in the spring of 2020, school boards and superintendents across the country faced a dreadful choice: Keep classrooms open and risk more COVID-19 deaths, or close schools and sacrifice ...

The role remote education played. By Sarah Mervosh Months into the current school year, most American students are still trying to make up for what they lost during the pandemic. This fall, we saw ...

In “The Weekend Interview With Edward Glaeser” (May 28), Tunku Varadarajan touches on a subject close to my professional domain: “the unmitigated disaster that remote learning has been for American ...

Dozens of studies have come out over the past months concluding that the pandemic had a negative—and uneven—effect on student learning. National analyses have shown that students who were already ...

The past two years of the pandemic have brought an unrelenting stream of disruptions to regular schooling: building closures, quarantines, staff shortages. And study after study has shown that ...

Test scores in D.C. elementary and middle schools have declined under remote and hybrid learning arrangements, according to a new study from the nonprofit EmpowerK12. The education data firm’s ...

In the spring of 2020, many schools were forced to make a rapid switch to remote learning as districts around the country shut down in-person classrooms. Most districts had to make this switch in one ...