Test a group of eighth graders who speak English at home. Is their Reading Comprehension better than non-English speakers?

About 16,238 third graders failed South Carolina reading tests last year. That number has been nearly cut in half.

SEATTLE — State and federal education spending for K-12 schools in Washington is way up, but test scores in fourth grade reading and eighth grade math are dropping, according to a non-partisan ...

Reading comprehension scores for middle schoolers had been declining for a decade since 2013. Separate surveys show that students are reading less for pleasure, and many educators speculate that ...

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

More students, however, are at risk of retention this year. A total of 6,470, or 11.6%, of Alabama third graders scored below grade level on recent spring reading tests, new state data shows. That’s ...

Washington, D.C., students showed big gains in fourth grade reading and eighth grade math. In fact, D.C. Public Schools was the only large district to show test-score gains in three of the four ...

In fourth grade reading, ... the federal agency which administers the test, grade 4 math scores improved between 2022 and 2024, a two-point gain that follows a 5-point decline from 2019 to 2022.

In 2013, 68% of U.S. fourth-graders tested at basic, proficient or advanced levels in reading. By 2019, that dropped just to 66% and by 2024, it dropped to 60%.

In the state’s largest school district, Detroit Public Schools Community District, 11.7% of third graders scored proficient or advanced on the reading test, compared with 12.4% last year.

JUPITER, Fla. (CBS12) — Students across the state have just finished up their FAST tests – that’s the state-required standardized tests that, starting in 3rd grade, they need to pass to make ...

The fourth and eighth grade tests are administered every two years. ... "Our fourth grade reading scores are virtually the same compared to 2022, and almost identical to 20 years ago.