Students in a second grade classroom at Ptarmigan Elementary School in Anchorage receive instruction from student teacher Erisa Koci on Sept. 29, 2023. (Tim Rockey/Alaska Public Media) Alaska spends a ...

Alaska's fourth-grade and eighth-grade students again scored below national averages on the reading and math tests administered by the federal government, according to results from the 2017 tests ...

The “legendary” wages that once coaxed people to Alaska have continued to shrink compared to the rest of the U.S., due partly to a statewide recession before the pandemic and a slow recovery after it, ...