Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Reading levels continue to plunge among U.S. students. (Getty Images) Reading skills for eighth-graders hit their lowest level ...

3rd grade students around Indiana are getting ready to take the IREAD-3 assessment. IREAD-3 is measures foundational reading skills based on Indiana Academic Standards. Indiana Department of Education ...

Data from federal standardized test scores points to another startling effect the COVID-19 pandemic had on America's children, with numbers indicating that reading and math scores for 13-year-olds ...

The National Assessment of Educational Progress, considered the nation’s most reliable exam, showed approximately one-third of 12th graders tested last year lacked basic reading skills. Test results ...

Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. When is a reading test not a true reading test? Most of the time. For years, cognitive ...

Alabama’s public elementary and middle school students are taking annual standardized tests this month, and for third graders, the reading portion is extremely important. This is the first school year ...

There’s yet more evidence that students have lost significant ground following the wobbly shift to pandemic-era remote classes that stretched for months: New data show the nation’s 13-year-olds are ...

MARYLAND IS ONE OF THE FEW STATES SEEING IMPROVEMENTS IN FOURTH GRADE READING, BUT THE STATE SAW A DROP IN EIGHTH GRADE MATH PROFICIENCY. THE FINDINGS ARE PART OF THE NATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF ...

Students learn in a Palo Alto Unified School District classroom. Embarcadero Media file photo. Palo Alto Unified School District’s early literacy program, the Every Student Reads Initiative (ESRI), is ...

Researchers from the HSE Centre for Language and Brain have developed a tool for accurately assessing reading skills in adults with reading impairments. It can be used, for instance, before and after ...

Reading skills for eighth-graders hit their lowest level since testing began in 1992. Levels for fourth-graders were also near record lows as educators struggle to keep students engaged in a ...