Texas students in third-eighth grades saw increases in social studies and math, but remained mostly flat in reading, according to STAAR test results. While the reading results remained mostly flat, ...

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Texas elementary and middle school students mostly stagnated in reading this school year while their performance on math and social studies exams improved, according to STAAR results released Tuesday.

Students walking to class at Webb Middle School in Austin. Across Texas, third- through eighth-graders are still struggling to perform at pre-pandemic levels in math on the annual STAAR exam.

AUSTIN, Texas - Texas elementary and middle school students showed improvement in social studies and math, but little to no growth in reading, according to STAAR test results released Tuesday. The ...

Third grade math scores predict children’s success in Algebra I, underscoring the importance of early math learning, according to a new report. Credit: Philip Keith for The Hechinger Report The ...

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San Antonio high school students showed sweeping improvement in reading and math on their 2026 state tests, reversing the decline in performance reported in 2025. The Texas Education Agency released ...

A week after OpenAI made headlines with an A.I.-generated proof, a new “declaration” by 16 experts raises concerns that the technology threatens math as a discipline. By Siobhan Roberts Recently there ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

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