When Schools Try to Cover Up Their Failures (opens in new tab)

Social promotion and efforts to ban standardized tests are ways of shielding adults from accountability. If you stare really hard—and maybe squint—at last week’s federal report on long-term K-12 education trends in the U.S., there is some good news. Math and reading scores among 9-year-olds have improved a little since 2022, and most of the […]