We have yet to see any rebound in middle school math on the nation’s report card, where scores declined by 8 points from 2019 to 2022 and remained at that low point when kids last took NAEP in 2024.

A key part—though surely not the only part—of early-grades math is ensuring students get the basic arithmetic functions down and, beyond that, making sure they’re able to swiftly and automatically ...

Classes may have started but that doesn’t mean that all students are learning at the same rate. Math and literacy scores for America’s 9-year-olds fell dramatically during the first two years of the ...