As it turned out, taking a class schedule mismatched to your biological clock took a toll on students’ grades, as the chart below shows. Early-rising “larks” had a grade advantage in morning ...

Likewise, a 2001 evaluation of the Student Achievement Guarantee in Education, or SAGE, class size reduction program by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee found that a five-year ...

On average, 13 percent of students scored at the highest or second highest level on the PISA test, making them “top performers.” Fifty-five percent of students in Shanghai-China were ...

In one school district that appears to have beaten the odds, Union City, N.J., students consistently performed about a third of a grade level above the national average on math and reading tests ...

A total of four class types in four school districts in Central New York have average class sizes of more than 25 students, according to state data. The classes and districts are below.