The National Assessment of Educational Progress measures student performance in math and reading. See how the 50 states shape ...

Building a good mathematics test is a surprisingly hard optimization problem. Every item in a test bank carries its own content domain, difficulty level, cognitive demand, and point value, and a ...

Key Points ・California’s 2025-26 test results show 49.3% of students proficient in English and 38.4% in math, both still ...

A student completes an algebra assignment at a Trinity, Fla., high school on Sept. 9, 2025. States and districts have stepped up efforts to enroll more students in Algebra 1 by 8th grade—and address ...

When Hawaiʻi elementary students are tested on division, multiplication and fractions — the fundamentals of math — about half of them score proficient on the state’s standardized tests. But later in ...