Summer school counseling interns in the Santa Clarita Valley have come up with several strategies to further aid students in necessary skill building.

The 2013 National Assessment of Educational Progress showed significant improvement in California eighth graders’ reading scores, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson announced Thursday. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. The NAEP is the nation’s largest assessment for students in grades four and eight. American students are tested on several ...

Tom Torlakson, the state superintendent of public instruction, kicked off California’s Common Core Summer with a day-long seminar in Sacramento to help teachers instill deeper learning of mathematics in their students.