MOBILE, Ala. -- An Alabama teacher is on leave after giving middle school students a test with math questions about prostitutes, drugs and guns, a school official said Wednesday. Rena Philips, a ...

A Brooklyn elementary school violated testing rules by stockpiling numerous copies of prior years’ exams – and then giving the materials to teachers and students to prepare for new exams, a ...

On any given ACT math section, 40-43% of the questions will fall under the category of Integrating Essential Skills, or IES. The makers of the ACT describe these question types as more complex because ...

When it comes to algebra, some of Clark County’s middle school students appear to know more than their high school counterparts. On a new end-of-semester test developed by the district, 56 percent of ...

The Common Core has come under fire by parents who say the new education standards make math needlessly complicated. Schools have adopted new ways of teaching subtraction and multiplication, and ...

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A tricky math exam question aimed at fifth graders has gone viral after perplexing thousands of people on the internet. The challenging problem was posted to a Reddit group called 'r/mildyinteresting ...

MOBILE, Ala. — An Alabama teacher is on leave after giving middle school students a test with math questions about prostitutes, drugs and guns, a school official said Wednesday. Rena Philips, a ...