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The assessments were the first since the pandemic for eighth graders in science and 12th graders in reading and math.
The latest scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as the nation’s report card, were just released—and things aren’t looking good for the country’s young readers.
State Education Commissioner John King has dropped "The Hare and the Pineapple " from New York's eighth-grade reading test after critics mocked reading-comprehension questions about the nonsense story ...
It's the first Nation's Report Card since the Trump administration began making cuts to the U.S. Education Department. The ...
More than half of South Carolina’s third- through eighth-grade students still can’t do math on grade level, even as reading scores reached all-time highs, according to state standardized testing data ...
Test a group of eighth graders who speak English at home. Is their Reading Comprehension better than non-English speakers? Not necessarily. They may be able to read English with ease. But ...
A national report card finds reading proficiency for American fourth-grade and eighth-grade students is declining. We go behind the numbers to understand why. Liana Loewus: “The reading test is kind ...