Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gov. Mike Dunleavy points to 2025 NAEP 4th grade reading test scores, where Alaska students ranked 51st in the nation. (Photo by ...

A professor at Furman University told the Alaska Legislature Task Force on Education Funding Wednesday afternoon that ...

The Alaska board of education approved lowering the test score standard for student proficiency, after school leaders cited the state’s nationally high bar. Student success on standardized tests is ...

When Alaska’s charter schools topped the nation in an analysis of student test scores, even the Harvard researchers who authored the study were stunned. Paul Peterson, director of Harvard’s education ...

Students walk off a bus to the Thunder Mountain Middle School entrance for the first day of school on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024. The Alaska Department of Education and Early Development failed a test ...

A decline in Alaska’s student test scores during the past two decades, including fourth graders now being a year behind their 2007 peers in reading and math, mirrors a decline in inflation-adjusted ...

Alaska’s public school test scores remaining near the bottom of the nation have turbo-charged the political debate in the Legislature over school funding. Gov. Mike Dunleavy addressed Alaska’s “report ...