How One Woman Became the Scapegoat for America’s Reading Crisis
Lucy Calkins was an education superstar. Now she’s cast as the reason a generation of students struggles to read. Can she ...
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Reading Interventions for Older Students May Be Missing a Key Component
Students who were above the decoding threshold read real words quickly, and nonwords more slowly. It’s likely that these ...
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Pittsburgh Public Schools is using data to revamp its approach to reading
Superintendent Wayne Walters told school board members Tuesday night that the district is using the latest third-grade ...
Learning to read can be difficult. How this group is teaching Arizona students to love it
Read Better Be Better works to give Arizona students a love of reading and learning while giving other students an ...
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84% of Mississippi 3rd graders pass reading assessment for 2023-24 school year
The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) today announced 84% of third graders passed the third-grade reading assessment ...
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Literacy rates have reached new heights among New Hanover County students. Here's how.
New Hanover County Schools has seen significant improvements in the number of students who are proficient in reading and ...
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Board approves plan to hold back, with parents’ OK, third graders who fall short on reading
Besides the third-grade retention part of ... training will include the science of reading, which focuses on teaching ...
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Alabama raises required score on reading test that third graders must pass
The Alabama Board of Education on Thursday voted 7-to-2 to raise the score requirement on the state’s third grade reading test - the first hurdle determining whether the student moves to fourth ...
Atlanta’s Black Third Graders Lag Their Peers in Literacy Testing
When Heather Perry asked her third grade class at Warren T. Jackson Elementary last week what they love about her literacy ...
New Research from AERDF and ETS Reveals Decoding Threshold is a Key Barrier to Reading Proficiency in Older K-12 Students
Despite expectations that students master basic reading skills by third grade, many continue to struggle with reading into upper elementary school and beyond. A recent study commissioned by the ...
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To support the use of Alaska Native languages in schools, educators propose reading standards
The standards are organized into two categories: comprehension and foundational ... older also means that the new reading standards don’t just end at third grade and are instead applicable ...
She Was an Education Superstar. Then She Got Blamed for America’s Reading Crisis.
A 2020 report by a nonprofit described Units of Study as “beautifully crafted” but “unlikely to lead to literacy success for all of America’s public schoolchildren.” The criticism became impossible to ...