The average American parent’s science and math knowledge taps out around the sixth-grade level, according to new research. When asked to estimate the grade they’d be placed into for both math and ...

Fifty-eight percent of parents said their child has asked for their help with math Homeschooling is not so easy. The average American parent’s science and math knowledge taps out around the ...

Where states set the bar for what counts as “proficient” performance on state tests differs dramatically across states and even across subjects and grades within states, a new study reveals. The ...

Little more than half of school students are proficient in science literacy and knowledge in the critical subject is less than it was two decades ago, shocking new figures have revealed. Year six ...

AMHERST — Caminantes, the dual-language Spanish and English program at Fort River School, will expand into sixth grade next fall when all Amherst sixth graders move to the Amherst Regional Middle ...

(July 24, 2014: See the editor's note at the bottom of this page for an explanation of the story's new headline.) When 12-year-old Lauren Arrington heard about her sixth-grade science project, she ...