At Spring-Ford Middle School 8Th Grade Center, 40% of students scored at or above the proficient level for math, and 79% scored at or above that level for reading.

At Middle School 50 in Brooklyn, where all eighth graders take algebra, teachers rewrote lesson plans for sixth- and seventh-grade students to lay the groundwork for the class.

Before the pandemic, middle school students’ test scores in math tended to decline as they moved through each grade. But the depth of this problem was obscured as most states, and thus most newspapers ...

Students who started middle school early in the pandemic lost ground in math, like students at other grade levels. But unlike other groups, they don’t appear to be recovering. At two Virginia schools, ...

A student orders real numbers in Ruby Voss’ and Amber Benson’s eighth grade math class. Nationwide, students who started middle school during the pandemic lost more ground in math than any ...

Yawen Li addresses the Troy school board May 16, 2023. She was one of a number of parents protesting changes to math classes they said would remove honors-track opportunities in middle school.