The National Assessment of Educational Progress measures student performance in math and reading. See how the 50 states shape up.

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

More people are incarcerated in the United States than any other country, with 1,808,100 prisoners, and the fifth-highest incarceration rate at 541 per 1,000 people, just barely below Turkmenistan, ...

In trying to attract businesses, states are playing to corporate leaders’ economic anxieties, marketing themselves as safe havens. Because of that, CNBC’s annual America’s Top States for Business ...