Florida is credited with starting the wave of third-grade reading laws in 2003, although Mississippi’s law, which passed in 2013, has attracted more attention recently due to the state’s ...

The order allows third grade students to be promoted to fourth grade even if they don't achieve a level 2 or better on the English Language Arts FSA, ...

The Supreme Court has permitted the Trump administration to deport migrants to countries other than their own. The decision opens the door to faster removals of people in the U.S. without ...

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The material gets more difficult with each grade, and cut scores increase throughout the year. Louisiana reports results broken down as "at or above" or "below" grade level, which includes "well below ...

To guide us toward a sustainable future, the impacts of human activities on natural resources need to be understood and quantified. In this study on global agriculture, we use a Life Cycle Assessment ...