Recent STAAR test results show that while Texas students increased literacy rates slightly, nearly half of students in third ...

In the United States, 70% of eighth-grade students cannot read at grade-level proficiency. Rating: Mixture (About this rating?) What's True: In 2024, 70% of U.S. eighth-graders did not meet the ...

Instructional Strategies to Enhance Literacy Outcomes Through FingerspellingWe have developed an evidence based intervention called Fingerspelling Our Way to Reading, that is specifically designed for ...

High schoolers, meanwhile, saw declines on the English exams but gains in Algebra I. Math scores for elementary, middle and high school students remain below pre-pandemic levels.

More time was spent on reading comprehension instruction in reading or English class, but it was still just 23 percent of instructional time. Still, that is a big improvement over the original 1978 ...

Obviously, reading English does not translate to comprehension. Here’s more evidence. China, Singapore, Macao, Hong Kong and Estonia ranked 1st to 5th.

However, that 70% data point isn't indicative of grade-level proficiency — in fact, the Education Department's own website for NAEP data cautioned that it "does not represent grade-level ...