Student Achievement
Education news, analysis, and opinion about efforts to improve or track student performance on a large scale.
Quality Counts
Special Report
Quality Counts 2019: Chance for Success
Which states do best job in assuring bright prospects for success over the course of a lifetime? The Quality Counts Chance-for-Success Index offers detailed answers.
Quality Counts
Special Report
Quality Counts 2018: Achievement & Success
The third and final installment of Quality Counts 2018 digs deeply into the data behind how states rank on academic achievement and on students' chance for success in a complex, ever-changing society.
Quality Counts
Special Report
Quality Counts 2018: Grading the States
Education Week's annual state-by-state assessment of public education paints a portrait of middling performance overall with patches of high achievement.
Student Achievement Leader To Learn From An Unorthodox Plan to Pay Students to Write Curriculum Is Raising AchievementFor Kate Maxlow, the director of curriculum in Hampton City, Va., engaging students and improving academic achievement go hand in hand.
Student Achievement Q&A Learning Recovery Efforts Worked. New Data Show Why States Must Not Let UpStudent learning recovered in record numbers, but improvements were uneven—and exacerbated some longstanding academic gaps.
Student Achievement To Settle a Lawsuit, California Will Shift $2 Billion to Students Hurt by Pandemic ShutdownsThe settlement in the class-action lawsuit presses districts to provide evidence-based support to help students get back on track.
Student Achievement Opinion What Many Advocates—and Critics—Get Wrong About 'Equitable Grading'Traditional grading encompasses more than academic performance. Is that what we want?
Student Achievement What the Research Says What's the Secret to a Long, Healthy Life? Staying in School, a Study FindsA 59-country analysis finds that every year of schooling extends your life.Student Achievement Quiz Quiz Yourself: How Much Do You Know About Connecting Schools & Communities?Answer 7 questions about the whole child approach of connecting schools and communities.Student Achievement Quiz Quiz Yourself: How Much Do You Know About Strategies for Personalized Intervention?Answer 7 questions about personalized intervention.
Student Achievement What the Research Says Students Are Regaining Academic Ground—Except in MathSchools report fewer students below grade level in most core subjects, federal data show.
Student Achievement What the Research Says How Absenteeism, Math Anxiety, and Other Factors Shaped the Troubling Results From PISADire results on the Program for International Student Assessment should start conversations. Here's how.
Student Achievement From Our Research Center Who's the Real Audience for A-F and Numeric Grades? Hint: It's Not the StudentsTraditional grading systems help parents—as well as colleges and universities—get a sense of how students are doing, educators say.
Student Achievement What the Research Says U.S. Teenagers Decline in Global Test of Math, But Hold Steady in Reading, ScienceThe Program for International Student Assessment shows U.S. students lost less ground than their global peers during the pandemic.
Student Achievement Opinion Who Better to Serve as Tutors Than Teachers? Here's One Way It's Being DoneAs schools struggle to address learning loss, absenteeism, and staffing, outside organizations are working to fill in.
Student Achievement Opinion Grade Inflation Teaches Students We Don't Mean What We SayEducation leaders need to stand up for rigor, and they need to support classroom teachers who are committed to putting that into practice.
Student Achievement Q&A 3 Must-Haves for Effective TutoringA national expert on tutoring highlights effective practices for schools.
Student Achievement Quiz QUIZ: How Are Students Doing Academically? Test Your KnowledgeAnswer these seven questions about American students' academic performance in recent years.
