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High GPAs And Test Optional Mask Poor Math Skills At College

Key Points ・UC San Diego’s own faculty report shows a thirtyfold jump since 2020 in freshmen arriving with math skills below the middle-school level, raising concerns about admissions practices and ...
Newsday

NYS' standardized test scores rise for grades 3 through 8 in English, math

Students in grades 3-8 in New York performed markedly better in 2025 in English on state assessment tests than in the previous two years — with more than half being scored as proficient, according to ...
The New York Times

As N.Y.C. Reading Scores Slip Under New Program, Officials Urge Patience

Math scores notched upward in the city, and officials said the drop in reading was explained in part by an effort to change reading instruction and retrain hundreds of teachers. By Troy Closson Fewer ...
NPR

Nearly 5 years after schools closed, the nation gets a new report card

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 ...