Starting last year, Southwest High School students have a new way to measure their progress in English and math. The Northwest Evaluation Association is a test that high-school students take ...

STAAR tests are far from the only standardized exams students take each year. Some districts also give students optional ...

Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, revived a plan created during the first Trump administration to end the testing of chemicals on mammals. By Lisa Friedman The Environmental Protection Agency will ...

St. Francis Xavier School students are performing above national averages on standardized tests. According to a community announcement, the Petoskey Catholic school’s Fall 2025 NWEA assessment results ...

Summer school consistently boosted students' math achievement in 2022 and 2023 but had no impact on reading. The math gains were modest, equivalent to about two to three weeks of learning during the ...

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 ...

Advanced in organs on chips, digital twins, and AI are ushering in a new era of research and drug development. Earlier this week, the UK’s science minister announced an ambitious plan: to phase out ...

Assessment and research organization NWEA recently launched a free dashboard tracking national trends and data on U.S. student academic achievement and growth. The tool documents how K–8 students are ...

Washington — President Trump directed the Pentagon on Wednesday to resume testing of nuclear weapons "on an equal basis" with other countries' tests, possibly ending a decades-long U.S. pause that ...

GYEONGJU, South Korea — President Donald Trump said Wednesday he had instructed the Defense Department to “immediately” start testing nuclear weapons "on an equal basis" with other nations. “Because ...