As Maryland’s largest school district rethinks its long practice of giving final exams, new data show that steep exam failure rates persist in math, with three out of four high school students ...

Montgomery County's failure rate for the June final exam in Algebra 1 was so steep — 82 percent for high school students — that district officials say they decided to add 15 percentage points to all ...

Erin Kiley teaches algebra at Syracuse's Grant Middle School last year. She is helping Norge Rodriguez., left, and Rubanel Serrano. New York Education Commissioner John King wrote in a letter to ...

Final exams are disappearing. Fewer professors are inflicting this end-of-semester torture on their students. In the early years of Harvard (we're talking 1600's), students had to take oral exams that ...