A local author is helping students at St. Katharine Drexel put their creative side on paper. Mary Honerman is taking sixth graders at the school through an all day writers’ workshop. These students ...

Third- and sixth-graders in Washington again scored above the national average on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills, according to results released yesterday by the state Office of the Superintendent of ...

Reading tests given in all Illinois public elementary schools show 3d and 6th graders understand better what they read than the average youngster in the same grade in the nation, while 8th graders ...

Sixth graders at a public school in Ipswich, Massachusetts, are sick of working as conscripted product testers for Common Core–aligned standardized exams—and have written a letter demanding ...

Williamsburg-James City County sixth-graders posted lower-than-expected scores on a set of standardized tests this spring, and school officials say they’re not sure why. “It’s just real puzzling,” ...