Reading and math achievement was improving, until 2013. Then it started to slide, even more the pandemic.

Reading and math scores are below pre-Covid levels in 86 percent of school districts.

Student misbehavior is way up, say kindergarten and first-grade teachers. More kids are unprepared to pay attention, cooperate and show respect to classmates and teachers.

Tutoring can be effective -- and affordable -- but schools have to make time for students to meet with tutors during the school day.

Connection leads to happiness. Covid rules isolated teens. "My friends were untouchable, unreachable, masked."

While millions of European children were in school -- mostly unmasked -- U.S. policymakers ignored the science, suppressed dissent and kept schools closed.

Closing the digital divide widened the achievement gap for Chicago students.

Education's "new normal" is horrifying. Let's build a new education system out of the ashes.

If education is sent "to the states," will they do a better job?

Eighteen months of remote schooling broke the culture of excellence at Baltimore's City College high school.

Public schools' response to the pandemic has caused permanent damage.

Reading scores are still falling on the "nation's report card," while math scores are the same.

Reopening schools didn't increase Covid cases, hospitalizations or deaths in five countries. But kids learned more.

Biden's education legacy: He gave schools billions to recover from the pandemic, but didn't focus on learning.

Teenagers are working less and earning higher grades. Everybody's "phoning it in."

Democrats have lost their edge with parents of school-aged children.

U.S. students are doing much worse in math, while some other countries are improving.

Schools got $190 billion in emergency funding during the epidemic, write Marguerite Roza, director of Georgetown's Edunomics Lab, and...

Many more parents are paying for in-person or online tutoring.

Students -- and teachers -- lost reasoning, memory and executive-function skills during the pandemic. Stress? Long Covid? Screens?