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WASHINGTON (AP) — A decade-long slide in high schoolers’ reading and math performance continued last year, with 12th graders’ scores dropping to their lowest level in more than 20 years, according to ...

Alabama students made strong gains in science and improved in all three tested subjects in eighth grade, according to ...