After state lawmakers passed legislation last year aiming to improve childhood literacy, Gov. Kim Reynolds is next turning her attention this session to Iowa students' math scores that dropped in ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds said in her Condition of the State speech at the beginning of the 91st General Assembly she would have a bill addressing math literacy rates. The bill is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New national tests show Iowa's fourth and eighth graders scored at or above average in reading and math assessments compared to ...

Amid a focus on Iowa’s achievement gap in public education – the gulf often seen in test scores and content mastery between white students and those of color – a newly-released study shows the gap is ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed a bill into law Monday to improve math scores in Iowa schools. House File 784, known as the Math Counts Act, requires schools to screen students ...

A student works on an algebra problem at Oak Ridge High School, on Thursday, May 12, 2011. Educators say the COVID-19 pandemic hurt academic achievement, especially in math, and is a key reason why ...

Iowa Statewide Assessment of Student Progress results for spring 2024 show that the state has reached or surpassed pre-pandemic proficiency levels in English language arts and mathematics, according ...

The state’s new “Math Counts Act” requires Iowa schools to start screening students’ math skills three times each year. Schools have been testing students’ literacy skills three times a year for ...

Several grades and schools in the Des Moines Public Schools continue to see improvements in English language arts (ELA) and math on the yearly Iowa Statewide Assessment of Student Progress. In total, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After state lawmakers passed legislation last year aiming to improve childhood literacy, Gov. Kim Reynolds is next turning her ...

New national tests show Iowa's fourth and eighth graders scored at or above average in reading and math assessments compared to the rest of the country in 2024. However, the results are still lower ...