More than half of city school kids still can’t handle basic math or English, even though this year’s state exams scores ticked up slightly, according to state data released Thursday. While state ...

Sample questions from test measuring basic thinking skills Tests are taken on a laptop computer in the test-taker%27s home Literacy%2C math%2C problem-solving are the areas measured by the tests These ...

Half of Pennsylvania’s high school seniors who took the state’s basic math test scored so low that they’re eligible to take it again. Preliminary numbers compiled Thursday show 63,094 students, or 51 ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to ...