State test results show California students overall performed much worse in math and English language arts than pre-pandemic, but a persistent achievement gap didn't worsen, as initially feared.

A return to phonics instruction could turn the tide on reading, a move that comes as many schools overcome pandemic-era absenteeism.

Good news is a rarity in California’s massive public school system, which purports to educate nearly 6 million students but struggles to improve chronically subpar academic achievement levels on state ...

California students made some progress toward regaining their pre-Covid levels of achievement with incremental increases in English language arts, math and science scores last school year.

California's test scores have yet to recover from steep declines since 2020, with a wide gap remaining between Latino and Black students compared to white and Asian students.

California's standardized tests are more rigorous than those of most other states, and the results reveal more about how each student is doing.

School districts made negligible progress in reversing the steep declines in test scores that have lingered since the pandemic.

If California leaders are serious about improving education for all students, they need to stop spinning bad news, acknowledge the current grim reality, and be willing to go beyond the status quo ...

One of California’s starkest — and most important — letdowns is the consistent failure to help elementary and middle school students achieve higher national test scores in basic educational ...

Not only did California kids score very low, vis-à-vis other states, in the most recent round of federal academic achievement tests, the National Assessment of Education Progress, but there were ...

It will test whether money is truly the key to educational achievement, as the education establishment contends, or other factors are preventing California kids from realizing their potential.