Passing special-ed students along with high grades and a diploma -- but no effective instruction --doesn't do them any favors.

A majority of black, Hispanic and low-income fourth-graders have "below basic" reading skills. Does it matter?

Achievement is falling, and gaps are widening, for American students and adults since well before the pandemic.

Britain's Labour Party plans to make science teaching less Western-centric and relax standards so lessons are more "enjoyable."

A deaf student with 3rd-4th-grade reading and math skills was given high grades and a diploma, ending special-ed services.

"We're in the midst of an "education depression," an "era of shrinking outcomes and opportunity," writes Tim Daly. From 1990 to 2013,...

Chicago teachers say they were told to pass all migrant students, regardless of their academic skills.

Overwhelmed by the number of students with different needs, teachers tend to lower expectations, writes veteran teacher.

Special education numbers are up.

Wisconsin is lowering expectations for students.

Many college students don't do the work -- perhaps because they have trouble reading and understanding college-level texts.

Adam Kotsko, who teaches humanities at a small liberal arts college, finds that even his best students are unprepared to read and...

"Rosie" averaged an 83 in core classes and tested more than two months above grade level in fifth grade in 2019. She was absent three...

You can't win if you don't play. The only way to improve student achievement is to "get butts in seats," writes Jessica Grose in the New...

Students don't have to turn in assignments on time -- or at all. The minimum grade for work is 50 percent, even if the student did...

New Jersey just doubled the percentage of students who are "graduation ready" in reading, writes Chrif Cerf, the former state...