The eighth-grade reading passage rates, however, dropped 8 percentage points from last year. The district hired more tutors for fifth-graders because the middle school principal has more ...

Recent STAAR test results show that while Texas students increased literacy rates slightly, nearly half of students in third ...

Central NY News; New York says Pineapple and Hare questions won't count on 8th-grade reading test. Published: ; Apr. 22, 2012, 5:01 p.m.

Parents question book used in 8th grade Watertown school classroom. Story by Sandy ... Copeland said she was uncomfortable reading the passages out loud and disliked the fact her child is assigned ...

Research shows that asking students to monitor and correct their own understanding of text as they read can boost their ...

Read a passage from the third-grade reading test called “Secrets Are Hard to Keep” and answer the six questions that students were tested on. NYTimes.com no longer supports Internet Explorer 9 ...

HISD Houston ISD reviewing curriculum creation after sexually charged reading passage was included in eighth-grade lesson plan. A school district spokesperson said the “inappropriate” passage ...

Students across the state are still scratching their heads over an absurd test question about a talking pineapple. The puzzler on the eighth-grade reading exam stumped even educators and has ...

Amy Manuel, whose twin sons are in the eighth-grade reading class in Texas, told KFDM-6 she objected to the book's content regarding Anne's attraction toward another girl, saying of the passage in ...

Here is the formula: 206.835 - 1.015 (words / sentences) - 84.6 (syllables / words) Yesterday the League of Women Voters resubmitted its ballot title, its language corrected to an eighth grade ...

Questions about the reading and writing tests arose after some education advocates pointed to studies showing passages were written above elementary and middle schoolers' grade levels.

The report reaffirms what the two found in their similar 2012 study: that, for the most part, reading tests given to students in grades 3–8 are at a level of difficulty at least one year above ...