National Assessment of Educational Progress scores are not representative of grade-level performance, per the Department of Education's website. According to 2022 data, most state reading standards ...

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Alabama’s reading scores are improving, but students’ results vary widely between schools and districts. AL.com analyzed the latest 2025 spring reading scores for third- and second-grade students. In ...

In 2015, Minnesota’s Northfield Public Schools had a district-wide gut check. The pre-K-12 district serves 4000 kids, and that year a new state law requiring that all high school juniors take the ACT ...

Fourth-grade teacher Angela Mosca moved around her classroom at Mary Eyre Elementary School in Salem one April morning as her students followed along with the day's assigned reading. She read a ...

Get the Ed Chat newsletter: Enter your email for weekly updates about Alabama schools from Trisha Powell Crain: Alabama education officials will share data about third grade reading progress Thursday, ...

The editorial “Tackling PH education crisis” (Editorial, 9/23/23), brings to mind teaching reading in the elementary grades before K-12. Grade 1 learners were in the first reading stage called reading ...

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 ...

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." ...