An eighth-grade history teacher in Dallas, Texas, says only two of her 110 students can read at grade level, a revelation ...

The “science of reading” is making its way onto more governors’ and state legislators’ priority lists as the 2024 legislative session gets underway. In Massachusetts, Gov. Maura Healey, a Democrat, ...

At some point over the past few pandemic years, many states pressed pause on one particular high-stakes, controversial piece of education policy: 3rd grade retention. But now, it’s back. The laws ...

Psychologists love to measure things, and perhaps nothing has been measured as much by psychologists as reading—both texts and readers. Multiple different instruments measuring text readability have ...

Do you know if your kindergartner or first grader is developing as expected as a reader, writer, and speller? You may want to check these K-1 literacy milestones. Here are a few key facts. 1. Learning ...

Like most of the nation, California students were stuck in low gear again in 2024. On the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP), they performed significantly below their pre-pandemic ...