Lucy Calkins was an education superstar. Now she’s cast as the reason a generation of students struggles to read. Can she ...

At the K-12 level, standardized testing remains a vital metric for measuring students’ comprehension ... and eighth grades. On this page, we use fourth- and eighth-grade math and reading ...

The event is a competition with students from 3rd through 8th grade to test their reading comprehension skills. The event featured 32 teams from the 5th and 6th grades who were at the AmTech Career ...

After fifth grade, the boost from better decoding instruction disappears. That’s probably because as grades go up, success on reading tests reflects comprehension ability more than decoding ability.

Students who were above the decoding threshold read real words quickly, and nonwords more slowly. It’s likely that these ...

College students skirting around doing assigned readings is not necessarily a new phenomenon, but lately, that problem has evolved into a more prominent roadblock. Students now seem increasingly ...

During the 2018-19 school year, only 48.5% of third graders tested at grade level or above in English language arts on the state’s Smarter Balanced tests ... The other half was spent reading together ...

Early and targeted interventions are critical in helping these students understand increasingly complex tests, a study finds.

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 ...

Recent Smarter Balanced test scores show that the percentage of LAUSD students who met standards decreased in every grade level except for eighth grade ... which examines the flaws in the way reading ...

In 2024, AL.com Education Lab reporters found schools with the most improved grades from the Alabama school report card for the 2022-23 school year, and identified local educators whose stellar work ...