New federal test scores show younger students are making gains in reading and math — after years of declines. "I think this is an optimistic release," Matthew Soldner, acting commissioner of the ...

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Before every important test, teacher Nancy Barajas dims the lights, turns on a disco ball and blasts music from her playlist. Her sixth graders dance together as a “pre-celebration” to boost their ...

Modesto, Calif. — Before every important test, teacher Nancy Barajas dims the lights, turns on a disco ball and blasts music from her playlist. Her sixth graders dance together as a "pre-celebration" ...

The pandemic-era backslide in math and reading scores for students across the U.S. was not a sudden catastrophe but the continuation of a brutal, decade-long "learning recession" that began years ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — Part of the ‘Strong Readers Act’ includes the implementation of second graders taking third-grade reading tests, beginning next school year. When signing the bill into law, ...

Boys’ reading struggles are not inevitable, research suggests, and addressing the deficit could improve outcomes in school and beyond. By Claire Cain Miller Claire Cain Miller is working on a series ...

Nearly 37% of Wisconsin students from 4K to third grade scored in the bottom quarter on early literacy tests last school year. In Milwaukee Public Schools, over half of students in the same age group ...

A record 77.3% of Mississippi third graders passed their initial reading assessment in spring 2025. The total pass rate, including retests, reached 84.6%, a slight increase from the previous school ...

All secondary-age school pupils in year eight (aged 12 and 13) in England will be required by the government to take a reading test. The declared purpose is to help drive up reading standards so that ...

young girl studying and listening to music on the laptop sitting on the floor of the living room at home Juliana Belo Gutierrez/iStockphoto / Getty Images/iStockphoto Preteens using increasing amounts ...

The writing’s on the wall — if you can read it. Sobering national test results show more high school seniors are struggling with math and reading than at any point in recent decades, with Education ...