Eighty-five percent of poor 4th graders in predominantly low-income schools are failing to reach “proficient” levels in reading on federal tests, according to a new study by a national foundation that ...

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Elementary and middle-school students are making across-the-board gains in math and more modest progress in reading, national test results out Tuesday show. The scores on the National Assessment of ...

Two strong policy shifts: holding individual schools accountable for student performance, and changing how reading is taught ...

A new report on elementary students’ reading proficiency finds that 80 percent of students from lower-income families aren’t reading proficiently by the time they reach 4th grade. The “data snapshot” ...

The fourth graders in Jeremy Lowe’s class at Atlanta’s Parkside Elementary School are on a tight deadline. They have only five minutes to write a dramatic “warm-up play” with characters, a setting, ...

Reading scores in New Jersey have continued to fall since the COVID pandemic, based on data published in the Nation's Report Card.

BOSTON – Massachusetts students lost the top spot in math and reading test scores and the organization known as "the nation's report card" says the COVID pandemic is to blame. New data from the ...

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