Last Wednesday, 11-year-old Geniya sat in a corner of the library at Ockley Green Middle School in North Portland, where she’ll be a sixth grader this fall, intently concentrating on spelling the word ...
At one Tucson Unified School District K-8 school, the math, reading and writing skills of sixth through eighth graders are slightly lower or about the same as those of fifth graders. At one district ...
A little girl stared at a list of test questions in her science class, unable to answer the majority. Resigned, she wrote at the top, “I failed badly” — although she misspelled it, instead writing, “I ...