Streamline high school course requirements.

It's easier to apply to college, as less-selective schools try to "put butts in the seats." But are high school graduates prepared?

Relying on AI to do the math for you is "a recipe for idiocracy."

A third of high school graduates (or less) are ready for college math and reading, but a majority will enroll in four-year colleges.

If "open access" colleges raised standards, would students work harder to qualify?

Teachers and professors are told to "meet students where they are," but not how to get them where they need to be.

Reading and math scores are way down for 12th graders. Only a third are prepared for college success.

The SAT, and soon the ACT, are changing to cater to students with short attention spans.

Washington state traded its exit exam for multiple graduation pathways, but still has 20% of students who aren't on track for a diploma.

California community colleges will require unprepared STEM majors to be placed in calculus.

Community colleges are starting more students in college-level classes, with remedial help on the side.

Urban charter school students in Massachusetts earn higher test scores and are more likely to enroll in college and earn a degree,...

Advanced Placement scores were released this week, and they're higher than ever. But not necessarily because students are learning more....

San Diego 11th-grade students are passing classes, but failing proficiency tests.

Eighty-two percent of teachers say public education has gotten worse in the last five years, according to a Pew survey. Fifty-three...

Taking an Advanced Placement class, struggling with college-level material and earning a low grade on the exam is a learning experience,...

For more than a century, New York students have taken Regents exams in multiple subjects to prove they were ready for college-level work,...

"(Are you ready?) Yes, I'm ready . . . I don't even know how to hold your hand Just to make you understand But I'm ready (ready) to learn...

"The basic philosophy of the Advanced Placement Program is simply that all students are not created equal," said the program's director,...

New York students will be able to graduate from high school without passing Regents exams, the state education department proposes....