Tests show U.S. students struggle to explain answers
American children do much better identifying the correct answers to simple scientific tasks than using evidence from their experiments to explain those answers.
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Study: Eighth-grade students still lag in science
Eighth-graders in the U.S. are doing slightly better in science than they were two years ago, but seven out of 10 still are not considered proficient, the federal…
Report: U.S. students don’t know much about history
Just 13 percent of high school seniors who took the 2010 National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the Nation's Report Card, showed a solid grasp of American…
U.S. students fare poorly in civics understanding
Roughly three-quarters of U.S. students failed to reach proficiency in a national exam testing their awareness of civics last year—a result that severely undermines the nation’s democracy, some…
Reading scores hold steady on nationwide test
The reading scores for fourth- and eighth-grade students on a national test held mostly steady last year, continuing a stubborn trend of minimal improvement across most racial, economic,…