Massachusetts MCAS scores show modest gains in English, flat math performance and continued post-pandemic challenges, with 63 districts returning to pre-pandemic levels.

Massachusetts education officials released the 2025 MCAS score results Monday, showing only 13 districts in the state have caught up to their pre-pandemic Math and English scores as results continue ...

While MCAS scores showed some improvement year over year, results are still poor compared to before the pandemic.

Looking at grades three through eight, only 13 school districts had scores above or at pre-pandemic levels in both English language and math.

The push to expand pre-kindergarten programs is on. Last school year, public pre-K programs received their biggest-ever boost in state funding. Enrollment in state pre-K programs nationwide increased ...

The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education released the MCAS 2025 results on Monday, which showed many students are still behind pre-pan ...

As COVID-19 took hold across the islands beginning in 2020, Hawaii’s public schools struggled to take stock of the damage wrought by the burgeoning pandemic. Remote learning had scrambled routines, ...

Massachusetts school students are still struggling to reverse pandemic learning loss​, the latest MCAS test results show.

ARLINGTON, Mass. — State education leaders released the latest MCAS results on Monday, which show students are continuing to lag below pre-pandemic levels, and for high schoolers, numbers are going in ...

The Parallel-R1 framework uses reinforcement learning to teach models how to explore multiple reasoning paths at once, leading to more robust and accurate problem-solving.

The artificial intelligence community celebrated a remarkable milestone in 2025 when both Google DeepMind and OpenAI systems achieved gold medal performance at the International Mathematical Olympiad.