Michigan children may be significantly lagging behind in fourth-grade reading, eight-grade math and overall in certain K-12 student groups compared to the rest of the country, according to a new study ...

The 'reading for middle-grade students' in the 3rd and 4th grades is not just about memorizing items. At its core is grasping ...

This article is part of the collection: Data Bytes: Parsing Education Data Into Snack-Size Servings. BROWNSVILLE, Texas — It’s nearly 5 p.m. on a Friday, and Dolores S. Perez is hard at work in the ...

Literacy in the early grades has become an increasingly prominent concern in the U.S. education system. States and local school districts are racing to pass much-discussed interventions like requiring ...

Any hopes of New Jersey's public school students bouncing back to the levels of academic standing they had before the COVID-19 pandemic were dashed Wednesday, based on data published in the Nation's ...

SEATTLE — State and federal education spending for K-12 schools in Washington is way up, but test scores in fourth grade reading and eighth grade math are dropping, according to a non-partisan ...

Stay on top of articles like this one by subscribing to the weekly MindShift email newsletter. Almost five years have passed since COVID-19 first disrupted America’s schools, and new data, known as ...

Michigan reflected a nationwide trend when it saw student test scores decline for fourth- and eighth-graders in reading and for eighth-graders in math between 2022 and 2024, according to national test ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana students are finding success in reading like never before. According to the Indiana Department of Education, Indiana achievement in fourth grade reading improved to sixth in the ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Fourth-grade student scores in Ohio on a test known as the Nation’s Report Card show little improvement since the COVID-19 pandemic. And in some areas, they are worse or have not ...

When Mississippi reformed its reading curriculum in 2013, scores for the state’s elementary school students soared. Inspired by the “Mississippi miracle,” other Southern states followed suit. But the ...