CINCINNATI — An Ohio House Bill looks to end the state's 'Third Grade Reading Guarantee,' which requires third graders to pass a reading test in order to move on to the fourth grade. Some who support ...

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 ...

Across the United States, the numbers are moving in the wrong direction. National exams that once showed slow but steady progress now capture a slide in reading, math, and science that has left high ...

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 ...

The first thing Havah Kelley noticed was her son’s trouble with the alphabet. The San Francisco mom reviewed letters with him for hours at a time, reciting their names and tracing their shapes. But ...

“This has been passed in at least 13 or so states, some of them now are trying to get rid of the retention law because of its ...

September 18, 2025 - Meet Allison Saiki, who teaches students how to manage money, pay rent and open retirement accounts, with a class currency she calls "Saiki Cents." This story was updated on Nov.

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 ...

Get the Ed Chat newsletter: Enter your email for weekly updates about Alabama schools from Trisha Powell Crain: Alabama education officials will share data about third grade reading progress Thursday, ...

The COVID-19 pandemic’s toll on the learning of kids across the U.S. was revealed through national test scores released Monday that show sharp declines in math and reading. Math scores saw their ...

This article was originally published in Chalkbeat. Reading and math scores shot up across New York City’s public schools last school year, according to state test results released Monday. Among ...