Looking at the data by each class from 2017-19 and 2021-22, the decline in math worsens as students move through middle school, averaging -17%. In English language arts, the average change is zero, as ...

At Hilliard's Weaver Middle School, students identified for additional math support are pulled for Bailey's class during a study hall period and work to reinforce foundational math concepts and ...

Students who started middle school early in the pandemic lost ground in math, like students at other grade levels. But unlike other groups, they don’t appear to be recovering. At two Virginia schools, ...

Just after 8 a.m. on a Friday morning, math coach Jamie Crane met with three sixth grade math teachers in LaCourtney Sanders’ empty classroom at Clay-Chalkville Middle School. Crane visits the ...

Evergreen Middle School eighth graders Eduardo Campos, left, and Noah Carrillo collaborate during math class. Their school has focused this year on student "talk strategies" and teacher ...

At Middle School 50 in Brooklyn, where all eighth graders take algebra, teachers rewrote lesson plans for sixth- and seventh-grade students to lay the groundwork for the class. The school’s ...

A student orders real numbers in Ruby Voss’ and Amber Benson’s eighth grade math class. Nationwide, students who started middle school during the pandemic lost more ground in math than any ...