Atlanta tops the nation with major 4th grade reading gains. ... This exercise, and other initiatives like extra tutoring, appear to be working with fourth graders in Atlanta.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A new study out Tuesday shows reading scores for Michigan fourth graders are plummeting. Education Trust-Midwest ranked Michigan 43rd in the country for fourth grade ...

In 2019, Alabama ranked 49th in NAEP reading scores for low-income fourth-graders; in 2022, it ranked 27th. Amid the pandemic that saw most states lose ground, Louisiana soared from 42nd to 11th.

Michigan fell from 32nd in 2019 to 43rd in 4th-grade reading – an important predictor of a child's future academic success and life outcomes – on the 2022 National Assessment for Educational ...