The average reading score for high school seniors dropped between 2015 and 2019, while math scores for those soon-to-be-graduates remained flat, according to the latest round of national test ...

American students are struggling with reading. And the country's education system hasn't found a way to make it better. In fact, fourth and eighth grade reading scores on the National Assessment ...

For example, the overwhelming majority (77%) of fourth-grade students in the highest SES category — the wealthiest kids — performed above the national average in reading.

Among students in grades 3-8, 27.5% scored on grade level last month on a quarterly English language arts assessment. In math, 39.5% of students in those grades scored on grade level.

DPS first raised the alarm about the pandemic’s effects on early literacy in the fall of 2021, when test scores showed a steep drop in the percentage of young students reading at grade level.

Math and reading averages in the largest Clark County school districts — Evergreen, Vancouver and Battle Ground — are also below grade level compared to the 2019 national average, according to ...