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Roland Fryer offers a fine analysis of the strategies that help students advance in the classroom (“The Economics of Education Reform,” op-ed, Sept. 9). After three decades as a professor of teacher ...

Boys’ reading struggles are not inevitable, research suggests, and addressing the deficit could improve outcomes in school and beyond. By Claire Cain Miller Claire Cain Miller is working on a series ...

Younger students have regained academic ground lost during the pandemic, but older students' test scores remain stagnant ...