Math scores among fourth and eighth grade students across the country experienced their largest decline in decades, according to results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP ...

U.S. students at a plateau: At 4th and 8th grade, reading and math scores haven't budged The pattern of decline concentrated among the lowest-performing students – across multiple grade levels ...

SEATTLE — State and federal education spending for K-12 schools in Washington is way up, but test scores in fourth grade reading and eighth grade math are dropping, according to a non-partisan ...

In 2024, 4th-grade math students in the state of West Virginia saw a 6-point growth, which is considered a significant improvement for the test.

The U.S. scores were higher than the average scores in around two-thirds of the countries in the 4th grade math assessment and more than three-quarters of the countries at the 8th grade.

The nation’s 4th and 8th graders have inched up in mathematics, new test data show, but the results are more mixed in reading, with 4th grade scores flat compared with two years ago.