(The Center Square) – According to a federal survey of school leaders, 40% of students in the nation’s public schools were behind grade level in one or more subjects at the beginning of the school ...

Setting high expectations for reading is not a problem, but labeling only students meeting those high expectations as ...

National Assessment of Educational Progress scores are not representative of grade-level performance, per the Department of Education's website. According to 2022 data, most state reading standards ...

New data on academic performance for 1st through 8th grade students this fall in reading and math show that across the board, students are not doing as well as their peers were before the pandemic.

Children who were in early childhood learning programs during the pandemic are struggling to keep up with grade-level learning in math and English, according to School Readiness for Young Students ...

I was puttering around last night on some stuff related to education and happened to run across a couple of interesting statistics from an NAEP report a few years ago. First there’s this: The share of ...

Newly released M-STEP data shows a mixed picture for literacy amongst Michigan students. The M-STEP measures whether students are proficient in grade level academic standards like ELA and mathematics.

After switching its elementary reading curriculum to one aligned with the science of reading, Denver Public Schools is celebrating an increase in the percentage of kindergarten through third grade ...

The United States’ system of mandatory public schooling operates under an unspoken social contract with students: Work hard, get good grades, and you can succeed in college, work, and life. Students ...

They read a book quietly under their desks, pester the teacher for extra credit, or, perhaps, they simply check out and act up. Every classroom has a few overachievers who perform above their grade ...

When Alberto Cortes was held back in fourth grade because of low math skills, he thought his world had come to an end. “The first day of going back to fourth grade, I see all my friends with new ...

President Obama’s presidential rhetoric is on roughly the same grade level as George W. Bush’s, according to a new analysis. {mosads}The website Vocativ scored more than 600 presidential speeches ...