Education Secretary Miguel Cardona challenged schools to keep their focus on getting struggling students back on track Thursday, while acknowledging that the disruption caused by the latest wave of COVID…

Fewer students are heading into the teaching field, according to American College Testing (ACT) records. The ACT test measures a high school student's readiness for college and provides colleges with…

“You’re smart, you’re Asian, you’re queer and nonbinary, and you were raised by a single mom. Colleges will love you.” That’s the message I heard from friends even years before…

Oklahoma education officials came up with an ambitious plan to help students who struggled during the pandemic: build a 500-person math tutoring corps. The goal is to have 250 tutors…

Unprecedented shortages of bus drivers and substitutes. A coronavirus variant that has quarantined swaths of students and staff. Pressure to help students readjust and catch up. As schools face this battery of…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=15&v=vRqO30caJR0&feature=emb_title&ab_channel=BOLDBlog Every child learns differently. This individual process is affected by a range of factors, including prior knowledge, ability and motivation. It is also dynamic and changes over the course…

The ACT English section tests students on many concepts throughout grammar and rhetorical skills. One of these areas we call the “keep it simple” — or KIS — principle. Here,…

No official test prep booklet is needed for these strategies. The ACT English section assesses test-takers in three areas of standard English conventions: punctuation, sentence structure and formation, and usage. For many…

Before the pandemic, eighth graders’ reading comprehension declined substantially. Since then, scholars have been trying to figure out why their scores dropped so much between 2017 and 2019 on a highly…