The results are “dramatic,” said Devin Kearns, a professor in early literacy at North Carolina State University, who was not ...

WASHINGTON — America’s children have continued to lose ground on reading skills in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and have ...

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The National Assessment of Education Progress found Missouri and other states made small gains in some areas, but students ...

As ubiquitous as colored pencils and alphabet posters, lists of “sight words” have long been a fixture in kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms ... has shown that phonics instruction ...

Among the states that saw reading scores fall in 2024 are Florida and Arizona, which were among the first to return to the ...

Takeaways from new federal data on student math and reading achievement detail the long and damaging road back from the ...

The first three years of ... In 2024, just 31% of Illinois third-grade students met or exceeded reading proficiency standards on the state’s end-of-year assessment. That means 7 in 10 third ...

For the second time, Louisiana’s 4th graders led the nation in reading growth on the NAEP exam, a test given every two years ...