As summer approaches, district leaders will spend part of their vacation strategizing how to improve reading and writing achievement. The news this year has remained grim: NAEP fourth-grade scores ...

When Faith Howard was hired to help improve literacy in Pinedale high schools three years ago, she said, the nut she had to ...

By last year, the cohort’s second-grade reading proficiency had dropped to 9%. Districtwide pass rates on state reading tests for third- through eighth-graders dipped from 79% to 76% from 2016 ...

Last year, their proficiency declined by 2 points compared with 2022. In fact, 19 states had a fourth grade reading score below the national average of 214.

Third- and fourth-grade reading scores are considered significant because third grade is around the time some experts say students need to transition from learning to read to reading to learn.

Fourth-grade reading is “furthest behind” at 71.9 percent below benchmark. On St. Croix, ELA proficiency improved to 28.3 percent, but 4th-grade reading still lags at 59 percent below.

Related: STAAR results: ECISD improves in 10 out of 15 tested areas Reading scores increased in grades 3, 4, 6, and 8, and remained steady in 5th and 7th grades. Math scores improved in grades 3, 4, 6 ...

Lansing School District celebrates improved reading scores, with proficiency rates rising from 11% to 16% over three years, ...

Research shows that asking students to monitor and correct their own understanding of text as they read can boost their comprehension—though using AI for this purpose hasn’t been studied extensively.

A middle-school teacher in Riverside County, Calif., had students generate keywords from a section of a book, use them to ...

Education experts are concerned that young Arizona children are falling behind when it comes to reading skills.