Howard County remained within the top four school systems for proficiency in the fifth and final year of the Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program, despite seeing only slight gains in English ...

Students in grades 3-8 and 11 are tested in math and English, and depending on their grades, science. Along with things like graduation rates, these results are one of the only statewide, annual ...

The cognitive flexibility that comes from being multilingual can give students a boost in math—if teachers know how to build on English learners’ strengths. Seventy-seven percent of 8th-grade ...