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Once again, schools on the nation's military bases have outperformed public schools on both reading and math tests for fourth- and eighth-graders.

Chicago Public Schools finally showed some real progress in reading on national test results released Wednesday, but only compared to how its students fared at least seven years ago.

Has education flat-lined in Iowa? Governor Terry Branstad says a recent survey suggests so.

Red-faced state educrats have killed a wildly unpopular plan to stick third graders with a four-hour battery of reading tests after critics ripped it in the Daily News.

Illinois education officials are investigating whether some students may have received improper help on the state's standardized exams.

A report on Nebraska public schools and student performance was released Wednesday during a news conference in Lincoln.

Maryland schools are spending a fortune to raise achievement — $60,000 for each additional student who becomes proficient. It's too high a price for the results we have been getting. We need to do better.

A majority of states intend to take President Barack Obama up on his offer to let them get around unpopular requirements in the "No Child Left Behind" education law, the Education Department said Thursday.