Kindergartners who started school scoring in the bottom 20% had only a 1 in 10 chance of reading proficiency by 3rd grade.

Proficiency by grade 3 is linked to long-term academic and life outcomes, making early identification of struggling students key.

Recently, the National Center for Education Statistics released the Nation’s Report Card of student progress in reading and math. These scores are based on the National Assessment of Educational ...

U.S. students’ math scores lag behind also dreary reading ones and have struggled even before the pandemic, but changes to the math curriculum to combat the problem have been slow moving. Over the ...

Both the state as a whole and Dallas ISD made gains in math, and middle schoolers gained ground in reading. But fewer than ...

Tallahassee area students are showing improvement in math and reading scores according to new state testing data.

America, we’ve got a middle school problem. Although reading and math scores are up for 9-year-olds on the National ...

This story is part of a series from the Education Reporting Collaborative in partnership with AL.com. For much of her teaching career, Carrie Stark relied on math games to engage her students, ...

The study found a dip of 5 points in reading scores — the largest in over 30 years — and 7 points in math, marking the first-ever decrease in the latter A new study shows a significant decline in both ...

The Texas Education Agency released spring 2026 test scores for grades 3-8 on Tuesday morning. Here's how Tarrant County ...

Two years after Indiana made big changes to reading instruction, state policymakers want to see a similar shift in math. A bill advancing through the state legislature would place new requirements for ...

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