The Mississippi Department of Education this week released sample questions from a third-grade reading test that will determine the fate of some 38,000 students statewide. The Third-Grade Reading ...

Each April, all 3rd through 5th graders in my school take the DC-CAS—a standardized, summative assessment of grade-level skills in reading and math. It is a grueling eight-day test paralyzing the ...

According to Oklahoma Department of Education, about 80 percent of the state’s third-graders passed reading tests with scores good enough to allow them to move up to fourth grade. However, statistics ...

On Wednesday night, Gail Kamphaus-Crouch couldn’t get her third-grader, Avery, to calm down enough to go to bed early for the next day’s state standardized reading test. “She said, ‘Mommy, I don’t ...

Under a new system that was designed to raise the bar to ensure that kids are prepared for college and jobs when they graduate, Ohio apparently is experiencing a middle-school reading crisis. Almost ...

MESQUITE, Tex. — Reading is 9-year-old Kristen Hernandez’s thing. She pores over mystery books, stories about vampires and even a college-level anatomy textbook that her mother is studying to become ...

More than 1 in 3 children in kindergarten through grade 3 have little chance of reading on grade level by the end of the school year without major and systemic interventions. That’s according to a new ...