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A whole host of winter respiratory viruses is circulating in the first weeks of 2024 — which means you probably know several people who are sick right now. And for a fourth January running, we still have to worry about COVID-19.

Results suggest how schools teach reading matters more than a student's family income or English proficiency.

While California’s literacy crisis certainly predates the pandemic, with less than half of California children reading at grade level back in 2019, the fallout of the pandemic, the devastating impact of school closures and remote learning, has sent test scores plummeting further.

Student test scores released by the California Department of Education this week show statewide declines in English and Math since pre-pandemic days. But one county in far Northern California is still scoring as well as it did before COVID.

The results — the most thorough look yet at the pandemic’s toll on learning — left education officials and experts neither surprised nor hopeless.

The national data is the first released since the beginning of the pandemic.

Test scores fell by 9 percentage points at the state level — and even more sharply at some large districts — in the first set of statewide test results in three years.

A new report out Thursday from Oregon education officials recommends changes to what’s required to earn a high school diploma.

After doing away with the SAT and ACT in 2020, the University of California said Thursday it would no longer consider using any tests as part of its undergraduate admissions process.

Does a standardized test really prove Oregon students can read, write, and do math?

Oregon leaders originally asked to waive all standardized tests. Testing will only be required in one or two subjects.

If approved, Oregon students would only be tested in one or two subjects.