Literacy rates have been falling in Milwaukee for over a decade. But there are new leaders, new money and new efforts to fix ...

Washington, D.C. — National reading performance trends reveal that students’ reading scores have been steadily declining over the past decade and steepened further in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic ...

The state that jumped from 49th to ninth nationally in reading is now guiding other states seeking literacy improvements.

Math performance has slightly rebounded since the Covid-19 pandemic closed schools, but reading performance hasn’t bounced back, according to new National Assessment of Educational Progress data ...

Like most of the nation, California students were stuck in low gear again in 2024. On the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP), they performed significantly below their pre-pandemic ...

Nashville third and fourth graders both saw modest gains in this year's English language arts scores on Tennessee's standardized test. Metro Nashville Public Schools reported 31.3% of third graders ...

More than 48,000 fourth graders in the state were reading below the basic level in 2024. Put another way: In the average Pennsylvania fourth grade class of 25, nine students can’t read at a basic ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - The Kansas City Royals are in the middle of a playoff push, but Thursday, their focus shifted from the scoreboard to the classroom. The team hosted fourth graders from Scuola ...

Assessing Utah students’ overall performance on a recent national test is akin to countless parent-teacher conference reports: doing well overall — but some areas need improvement. Earlier this week, ...

An eighth-grade history teacher in Dallas, Texas, says only two of her 110 students can read at grade level, a revelation ...

The release of TCAP reading scores on May 19 set off a fast-moving timeline for thousands of Tennessee third graders to avoid being held back. A state reading and retention law hinges on third grade ...