For 50-plus years, students in grades 4, 8, and 12 have taken national standardized tests that assess reading and math proficiency and are designed to measure overall academic achievement. But long ...

More than half of Louisiana children from poor families start kindergarten without basic reading skills — and most fail to catch up by third grade, a critical year for literacy development, according ...

We live in a world where everything is developing at an extremely fast rate, with an increasingly competitive job market focused on technical skills. However, regardless of how far we go, foundational ...

Lauren Giella is a Senior Reporter based in New York. She reports on Newsweek's rankings content, focusing on workplace culture, health care and sustainability, profiling business leaders and ...