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.
Michigan schools have made little progress in recent years despite years of sounding alarms by state, business and education leaders.
In Detroit, as many as 260 classroom teacher positions are unfilled in the state’s largest district, prompting a shortage so severe that substitutes last year were the full-time solution in more than 100 classrooms.