Starting in the 2025-2025 school year, third, fourth and fifth grade students will be instructed to read and write cursive.

The Ketchikan City Council during a rescheduled regular meeting on Wednesday will reconsider, at the request of Council Member Judy Zenge, reclassifying the Public Works director's position and the tw ...

AISD student dies following ‘8th grade celebration,’ … News / May 29, 2025 / 10:39 PM CDT ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — An 8th grade teacher at Parkway Heights Middle School who was put on administrative leave after he allegedly “engaged in inappropriate behavior with juvenile students ...

Act 602 requires ballot titles be at no higher than an eighth grade reading level. That’s determined by running text through the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Readability Test, designed by the Navy ...

Published: May 8, 2025 10:17am EDT The proportion of non-readers who couldn’t read any correct word per minute reduced from 43.3% (following a few dropouts) to 18.9% at endline.

Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin rejected a proposed amendment by the League of Women Voters, citing Act 602, which bans ballot titles above an 8th-grade level.

However, officials said the most startling data from the report is the eighth grade math scores that continue to drop, even as spending has increased. Edunomics Lab Director Marguerite Roza ...

Of the 22 states with readability requirements for ballot measures, only Rhode Island and New York reference a specific reading level, and New York doesn't even have an initiative process.

National data shows the average Maryland eighth grader is below proficiency in math and reading, scoring a 258 out of 500 in reading last year and a 268 in math. That’s according to the National ...

Keep your soon-to-be or leaving 1st (first) graders, ages 6 and 7, practicing their growing reading skills with the best 1st ...