When COVID-19 wrought havoc on society in early 2020, today's youngest schoolchildren were infants or yet to be born. Now in ...

NWEA, a K-12 assessment and research organization, released today a new report sharing the latest trends in student academic growth and achievement focused on the youngest grades: K-2. While much of ...

In a massive study conducted during the 2020–21 school year, education researchers at NWEA found that students using MAP Accelerator personalized math instruction for at least 30 minutes a week ...

PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- NWEA, a K-12 assessment and research organization, released today a new research brief, "Unequal Access to 8th-Grade Algebra: How School Offerings and ...

The math and reading lags among 1st and 2nd graders are similar to achievement patterns seen in their older peers, NWEA research says.

Houston ISD’s elementary and middle school students achieved above average annual growth on the reading and math Northwest Evaluation Association's Measures of Academic Progress exams but below ...

Now that those children have reached their early school years, researchers are beginning to see how pandemic years have shaped their education, even though many had yet to set foot in a classroom when ...

Portland, OR – NWEA, a not-for-profit, research and educational services organization serving K-12 students, today announced progress it has made toward creating an accessible and equitable math ...

A disproportionately large number of poor and minority students were not in schools for assessments this fall, complicating efforts to measure the pandemic’s effects on some of the most vulnerable ...

Girls had closed long-standing gender gaps in math test scores and were doing about as well as boys on standardized tests in the years leading up to the pandemic. But the gender gap in math has come ...