When the federal government released the 2005 results last month for “the nation’s report card,” a few observers detected some subtle changes in the way the scores were presented—changes they say ...

“Don’t take Tylenol,” President Donald Trump urged pregnant women in a packed White House press briefing Sept. 22, claiming a link between acetaminophen use and autism. Within hours, experts pushed ...

The National Assessment of Educational Progress is a federal program that measures student achievement at three grades (4, 8, 12) across a range of skills, subjects and variables. Student achievement ...

More than 48,000 fourth graders in the state were reading below the basic level in 2024. Put another way: In the average Pennsylvania fourth grade class of 25, nine students can’t read at a basic ...

A friend of mine, a young mother, vented her frustration on Facebook. “In today’s day and age it’s not hard to spend a bit of time looking at the sources,” she wrote. That sounds plausible — until you ...