The newest data on 3rd grade literacy shows local progress is mixed.Official IREAD proficiency data was released by the ...

The stakes surrounding the data are high. Half of New York City students in grades 3 through 8 did not read at grade level. Meanwhile, Mayor Zohran Mamdani is continuing a costly and complex process ...

School cellphone bans might seem like a good way to improve learning for elementary school children, but new research published in Behavioral Sciences shows that simply owning a cellphone correlates ...

Twenty-three hundred years ago, the legend goes, King Ptolemy I of Egypt asked his court adviser to assemble a comprehensive collection of the world’s written works. Ptolemy, who had served under ...

New federal test scores show younger students are making gains in reading and math — after years of declines. "I think this is an optimistic release," Matthew Soldner, acting commissioner of the ...

Make this your preferred source to get more updates from this publisher on Google. Over one million Grade 11 students nationwide have difficulty understanding what they are reading, the report by the ...

MANILA, Philippines — A lawmaker has urged the Department of Education (DepEd) to focus on addressing reading comprehension problems encountered by students as old as those in Grade 11, instead of ...

Before every important test, teacher Nancy Barajas dims the lights, turns on a disco ball and blasts music from her playlist. Her sixth graders dance together as a “pre-celebration” to boost their ...

The pandemic-era backslide in math and reading scores for students across the U.S. was not a sudden catastrophe but the continuation of a brutal, decade-long "learning recession" that began years ...

When asked what I’m studying, I normally shrug and noncommittally say “English.” I want to make it clear that I’m aware it’s a somewhat romantic pursuit, set apart from the new standard of ...

Every year, tens of thousands of Tennessee third graders face being held back under a state reading law. While most advance to the next grade, they must navigate a fast-moving timeline to avoid ...