National Assessment of Educational Progress scores are not representative of grade-level performance, per the Department of Education's website. According to 2022 data, most state reading standards ...

Project 75 is a reading initiative with an ambitious goal: to boost the percentage of third-graders in Jackson who pass the state assessment on the first attempt from 55% to 75%. Cormack presented his ...

Years ago, I coached my 8-year-old son’s basketball team. A few games into the season, a parent berated me for not winning every game. I shared that I had two primary goals (and neither was piling up ...

You are a district school superintendent. A large fraction of the students coming out of your middle schools arrive at the door of your high schools a year or two behind where they need to be to ...

In the education world. there's plenty of talk about performing "at grade level," such as the importance of getting all third-graders reading at grade level by the end of that year. Board of Education ...

When Christina Quintero notices academic and behavioral struggles in her two children today, her mind shifts back to five years ago. Quintero's kids were among the 1.6 billion worldwide whose ...

Children who were in early childhood learning programs during the pandemic are struggling to keep up with grade-level learning in math and English, according to School Readiness for Young Students ...

After switching its elementary reading curriculum to one aligned with the science of reading, Denver Public Schools is celebrating an increase in the percentage of kindergarten through third grade ...

A new study by Gallup on behalf of the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy finds that low levels of adult literacy could be costing the U.S. as much $2.2 trillion a year. According to the U.S.