If and when the next big earthquake strikes the Bay Area, thousands of older, soft story homes in San Jose face the risk of catastrophic damage. The city passed legislation nearly 18 months ago ...

Editor’s note: A story about Lackawanna County schools’ standardized test scores published Saturday used the wrong data to evaluate students’ performance. This story corrects that information.

Welcome to Chalkbeat Ideas, a new section featuring reported columns on the big ideas and debates shaping American schools. Next week we have an online event with Education Department official Lindsey ...

As national education spending per pupil rises, student enrollment is dropping and test scores across the United States are falling, which raises concern over how effectively taxpayer dollars are ...

A large urban district in Florida saw an increase in student test scores. A smaller school district in rural California is experiencing a dramatic decline in student behavioral problems. The reason ...

The Copenhagen Test doesn’t exactly break the mold in the SpyFy game. Christopher Nolan has been perfecting it for years with films like Tenet and Inception, not to mention adjacent elements ...

Circle City Readers — an Indianapolis tutoring program to address K-3 grade literacy gaps at public schools — has improved reading for over 750 students at ten schools since 2023, according to a new ...

With student test scores in a decade-long decline, many researchers are pointing to cell phones and social media as the catalyst. Can cell phone bans turn student learning around?

While Syracuse City School District holds steady with the worst standardized test scores in the county, students have improved in recent years. SCSD ranked among the bottom in New York State, coming ...

Four years after the pandemic emergency ended and K-12 performance plunged nationwide, New Jersey’s third through eighth graders are finally edging up to be on par with pre-pandemic levels, although ...

Scores on New York’s statewide assessment tests improved in both math and English language arts during the 2024-2025 school year. Statewide, 57% of students tested proficient in math last year, up 3 ...