Eighth-graders across Bexar County and statewide failed Texas’ standardized reading test in much greater numbers than last year’s eighth-graders, but passing rates for fifth-graders generally ...

A student exits a school bus as they arrive to Creative Arts Secondary School on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025, in Saint Paul, Minn. (Ellen Schmidt/Minnesota Reformer) The share of Minnesota eighth graders ...

Earlier this summer, the curriculum and assessment company Amplify reported that 70% of kindergartners and first graders were ...

Houston ISD's new state-appointed superintendent said the district is reviewing its curriculum creation process after a sexually charged reading passage was initially included in a lesson plan for ...

This year, 100% of the 8th-grade students in Shelly Hankins’ reading class improved by at least 1.2 grade levels in reading proficiency, and most averaged 2.5 years of growth. One student, who began ...

In 2024, 70% of U.S. eighth-graders did not meet the "National Assessment of Educational Progress Proficient" reading achievement level on a test often referred to as the "Nation's Report Card." ...

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 ...

But only 23% of the eighth graders in the district's public schools were proficient or better in reading in 2019, according to the department's National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified the school district in Chicago as one of two school systems participating in the NAEP urban district analysis to show reading gains ...

During a dual language reading class in early October, a group of third graders at Houston ISD’s Hobby Elementary learned ...