State Superintendent Michael Rice said the Michigan Legislature must provide children with lower class sizes in high poverty K-3 classrooms, more in-person instructional time, and funding for more research-based early literacy materials.
Fourth and eighth graders did not make significant improvements to reading and math scores on the “nation’s report card” since historic lows in 2022.
The standardized test results offer a first look at how Michigan kids who enrolled in kindergarten and first grade during COVID shutdowns are performing.
A particular area of concern is students who were in kindergarten in 2020 when the pandemic hit. Their third-grade reading results were well below pre-pandemic levels.
NAEP scores show Michigan’s longstanding gap between low-income students and affluent peers widened considerably
Michigan’s M-STEP test scores are difficult to interpret because so many students — including some of the most vulnerable in the state — didn’t take the exam.
Michigan public school students show marked improvement compared to their peers in other states, according to national test results released Wednesday.
One judge asked the question that worries Michigan leaders: “How much would it cost to fix the Detroit schools?”
After several years of flat or declining results, scores on Michigan's M-STEP exam show faint signs of improvement.
Despite years of education reform, millions of dollars in targeted spending, scores on the M-STEP sank even lower this past school year in most grades and test subjects.