Imagine you have a test coming up. Wouldn’t you like to know what might be on it? That may seem like a fair question, but millions of kids are sitting down for reading tests this spring with no idea ...
Third graders can’t read. That’s a common assertion. How do we know? Colorado’s CMAS standardized tests for third graders ...
MECKLENBURG COUNTY, N.C. — Thousands of local children are failing mandatory reading exams despite statewide efforts to help them improve their scores. Six years ago, North Carolina leaders created ...
New data show over half of Milwaukee Public Schools 4K-3rd graders scored below the 25th percentile on reading, compared with ...
Students' overall test performance for the 2020-21 school year is expected to be lower than normal, after an entire school year disrupted by COVID-19 pandemic protocols that pushed the state's 1.5 ...
The state has relaxed some guidelines on a new literacy training requirement after a teacher outcry against the new state mandate. The law, which goes into effect July 1, calls for pre-K to grade 6 ...
Imagine a physics program that won’t teach the theory of relativity. Or an English department that shuns Shakespeare. That would be equivalent to how U.S. schools of education treat the most effective ...
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 ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The city Department of Education (DOE) recently released data on the 2024 New York state test scores for English language arts and math. Each spring, New York students in grades ...
The writing is on the wall — if you can read it. Sobering national test results show more high school seniors are struggling with math and reading than at any point in recent decades, with Education ...
The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Andrea Yon is ...
A national report card finds reading proficiency for American fourth-grade and eighth-grade students is declining. We go behind the numbers to understand why. Liana Loewus: “The reading test is kind ...