Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. National Assessment of Educational Progress scores are not representative of grade-level performance, per the Department of ...

Part of the 'Strong Readers Act' includes the implementation of second graders taking third-grade reading tests, beginning ...

While these Southern states made some gains in reading, they weren’t evenly felt across different student populations.

At some point over the past few pandemic years, many states pressed pause on one particular high-stakes, controversial piece of education policy: 3rd grade retention. But now, it’s back. The laws ...

Alabama’s public elementary and middle school students are taking annual standardized tests this month, and for third graders, the reading portion is extremely important. This is the first school year ...

Lansing — Michigan lawmakers have spent about $1 billion over the last decade attempting to boost students' reading scores, but the investments have failed to achieve anything close to the goal ...

The Mississippi Department of Education this week released sample questions from a third-grade reading test that will determine the fate of some 38,000 students statewide. The Third-Grade Reading ...

In 2024, 70% of U.S. eighth-graders did not meet the "National Assessment of Educational Progress Proficient" reading achievement level on a test often referred to as the "Nation's Report Card." ...

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