From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington’s top education official accused critics of deliberately misrepresenting state test results in an effort to undermine public schools and push for privatization.

American high-school seniors’ scores on major math and reading tests fell to their lowest levels on record, according to results released Tuesday by the U.S. Education Department. Twelfth-graders’ ...

The writing’s on the wall — if you can read it. Sobering national test results show more high school seniors are struggling with math and reading than at any point in recent decades, with Education ...

The Education Department has released a new Nation's Report Card. High school students, especially 12th graders, are reading and learning math and science at historic lows, according to a new report ...

Scores for 12th-graders in math and reading continued their years-long slide, reaching new lows on national tests, new data released Tuesday shows. The declines were underway before the onset of the ...

Most fourth graders in this country are not proficient in math. That was true for one rural Wisconsin elementary school until it changed the way it taught the subject. Most of the nation's fourth ...

Many of today’s college students have experienced disruptions to their education due to the COVID-19 pandemic, negatively affecting their personal well-being as well as their academic preparation.

Could you ace a primary school maths exam? From multiplication tables to addition and subtraction, we've compiled a maths quiz with questions escalating in difficulty, designed to challenge a ...

A brain teaser shared on Facebook challenged users with a simple maths puzzle that caused confusion due to its tricky wording. Brain teasers continue to dominate social media, and the latest one ...

There's no feeling quite like it. You're sat in the exam hall and the paper is placed on your desk. Lines of individual tables and chairs and anxiety and nerves building as you await permission to ...

More than one million Grade 9 learners have started selecting their senior school pathways under the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC), marking a key phase in Kenya’s education reform. Each learner is ...