McMahon appeared to be referencing National Assessment of Educational Progress proficiency scores, which do not indicate ...

American students are struggling with reading. And the country's education system hasn't found a way to make it better. In fact, fourth and eighth grade reading scores on the National Assessment ...

Nationwide, the average reading score on NAEP fell 3 points from 2019 to 2022, to 217 in grade 4 and 260 in grade 8. While not as large a drop as math, it represented a significant decline in ...

Scores in 8th-grade reading held steady in large cities, in what Peggy Carr, commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, called a “bright spot … amidst all the chaos and ...

Nationwide, the results show students in fourth and eighth grade saw declines in math and reading between 2019 and 2022. It relates it back to the pandemic and the disruption caused by Covid-19.

By Sarah Mervosh and Ashley Wu U.S. students in most states and across almost all demographic groups have experienced troubling setbacks in both math and reading, according to an authoritative ...

Sampled students in the eighth grade across the country are tested for math and reading comprehension on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, which the U.S. Department of Education ...

Eighth grade test scores in Maryland have been declining for many years — and not just because schools shut down during the coronavirus pandemic. Math and reading scores tested annually have ...

This story was supported by a statehouse coverage grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Delaware Gov. Matt Meyer declared a “literacy emergency” after national test scores revealed ...

Act 602 requires ballot titles be at no higher than an eighth grade reading level. That’s determined by running text through the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Readability Test, designed by the Navy ...

At Owasso 8Th Grade Center, 26% of students scored at or above the proficient level for math, and 32% scored at or above that level for reading.The school’s minority student enrollment is 47%.