Boys’ reading struggles are not inevitable, research suggests, and addressing the deficit could improve outcomes in school ...

Reading and math scores are abysmal across the country, as national testing results keep documenting. Illiteracy rates are rising: The number of 16- to 24-year-olds reading at the lowest literacy ...

A majority of Michigan students did better on their reading test scores this year compared to last year, but literacy rates are still lagging behind especially for third and fourth graders. The state ...

This story was originally published by The 74. Ohio’s drive to boost reading scores using the science of reading has had a rocky start in the two years since Gov. Mike DeWine fought for the change, ...

Nearly 37% of Wisconsin students from 4K to third grade scored in the bottom quarter on early literacy tests last school year. In Milwaukee Public Schools, over half of students in the same age group ...

However, the overall fall average of K-3 dropped 2.4% — from 59.5% to 57.1%. The decline was because 2024 was the year the state switched to a tougher test. As a result, the kindergarten kids who ...

Earlier this year, Peter Hutchinson, former Minneapolis Public Schools superintendent, raised concern in a Star Tribune commentary about the academic decline of students in Minnesota particularly in ...

Iowa’s reading proficiency scores jumped nearly 11 percent after the state implemented the “Science of Reading Act” signed into law by Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds in 2024. Reynolds and Iowa Department of ...