The Rochester City Council has adapted a neighborhood-based reading program that they hope will provide students with the ...

The bad news is the concept of “reading on grade level” is not as straightforward as it might initially appear. It can be confusing when what states, districts or schools each call “on grade level” ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a dramatic impact on the reading skills of Ohio's youngest students, according to state data. The third-grade reading proficiency decreased statewide from 67% in the ...

The reading skills of children continue to slide, with just 67% of students in eighth grade scoring at or above a basic level in 2024. Among fourth-graders, the number of students hitting that ...

Like clocks during daylight savings, they will either spring forward (if they are reading at grade level) or they will fall back (if their reading skills are below grade level). The latter, of ...

40 percent — The number of first grade students “well below grade level” in reading in 2020, compared with 27 percent in 2019, according to Amplify Education Inc. First grade in particular — “the ...

Math and reading averages in the largest Clark County school districts — Evergreen, Vancouver and Battle Ground — are also below grade level compared to the 2019 national average, according to ...

Some students are worse off than others. In Oregon, 36% of fourth-grade students tested by the National Assessment of Educational Progress were below basic reading levels in the 2019-20 school ...

This year, eighth-grade reading scores in 31 states dropped two to seven points — which the federal government deemed significant — compared with their performances in 2017. Indiana, New ...