This article first appeared in EdSource. Five years after the COVID pandemic closed schools and pushed students into a year of distance learning, California test scores show that — despite increases — ...

This story was updated on Oct. 18 to include comments from districts and on Oct. 25 to describe kindergarten absentee data as including students enrolled in transitional kindergarten. In the second ...

After several years of steady recovery from pandemic learning loss, Louisiana students saw their progress stall on this year’s state math and science tests, according to new state data. English scores ...