Many wish they had picked up more financial literacy skills in high school — a math area where Utah kids shine.

Starting this fall, Manitoba students from Kindergarten to Grade 8 will go back to some of the old ways of learning ... in September — strikes the right balance between developing math skills, ...

to 217 in grade 4 and 260 in grade 8. While not as large a drop as math, it represented a significant decline in reading skills for both grades for all but the top 10 percent of 4th graders.