Eighth grade students’ science test scores have fallen to the level they were in 2009, the first year the test was given.

The results for eighth graders who took National Assessment for Education Progress science tests in 2024 reflect trends seen in other tests, including the return of a gender gap.

A decade-long slide in high schoolers’ reading and math performance persisted during the COVID-19 pandemic, with 12th graders ...

That’s according to an exam known as “the Nation’s Report Card.” The National Assessment of Educational Progress has been ...

A group of 36 girls entering the eighth grade received a weeklong crash course in the science and math behind climate change thanks to a unique, interactive curriculum designed and delivered by four ...

It's the first Nation's Report Card since the Trump administration began making cuts to the U.S. Education Department. The ...

U.S. eighth graders are less prepared to be the scientists of tomorrow than they were before the pandemic. In the first ...

Just 31 percent of students were considered proficient or better on the test. Eighth-graders in the U.S. are doing slightly better in science than they were two years ago, but seven out of 10 still ...

Barely half of city eighth-graders passed statewide science exams last year — leaving scores relatively unchanged in the subject over nearly a decade. The results showed 53.2 percent of eighth ...

Nearly a decade after California revamped its K-12 science curriculum, two-thirds of students failed to meet the statewide ...