Kids Who Were Babies During COVID Are Now Struggling With Reading and Math

Although most of them were still in diapers when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, today’s early elementary students didn’t make it through the global catastrophe unscathed. A new analysis from NWEA, an ...

Pandemic babies are now in school and their test scores reveal a troubling pattern

Now that those children have reached their early school years, researchers are beginning to see how pandemic years have ...
KSNT

Young kids missed the pandemic’s school disruptions. Their reading scores are still behind

When COVID-19 wrought havoc on society in early 2020, today’s youngest schoolchildren were infants or yet to be born. Now in ...
Times of San Diego

SD Unified expands free transitional kindergarten; apply by March 22

San Diego Unified School District leaders Monday announced that free transitional kindergarten is being expanded for the next school year with the addition of nine new classrooms and 180 additional ...
Tennessean

Who's the best math teacher? The Tennessean's asking. Vote in our poll

Nine math teachers nominated for The Tennessean's third Teacher of the Week poll. This inaugural poll launched in February 2026 honoring the best educational assistants. Math teachers help their ...
The Hill

Only 33 percent of schools have recovered in either math or reading 6 years after pandemic

New research found only 1 in 3 schools have recovered in either reading or math since the COVID-19 pandemic shut down schools nearly six years ago. The number of schools that recovered in both ...
Local 12 WKRC Cincinnati

Kindergarten teacher attacked student for breaking pencil, forced him into corner: police

WACO, Texas (WKRC) - A kindergarten teacher allegedly attacked a student for breaking a pencil and used her knee to force him onto the ground in the corner of the classroom. The incident occurred on ...
AZ Central

Here's how we can keep kids in advanced math | Opinion

In classrooms and communities across Arizona, thousands of students who demonstrate readiness for advanced mathematics courses are never given the opportunity to do so. This isn’t due to ability or ...
EdSource

With literacy policies on the books, advocates target early math

EdSource · Los Angeles parents fight for and win intensive tutoring for kids hurt by Covid Buoyed by their successful strategies for early literacy, California legislators and advocacy groups are ...
Charlotte Observer

Union County’s math scores improved so much it wants to share its method across NC

Union County Public Schools launched a math tutoring program in 2017 that has significantly improved scores in the district. Now, it’s considering partnering with other counties to do the same thing ...
Newsweek

Kindergarten Age Changing for Some American Children

The change, adopted through Ohio House Bill 114, shifts the state away from a system that allowed local districts to set their own deadlines for when children must turn 5 to start school. Beginning ...