(The Center Square) – Midyear elementary school reading assessments in 2023-24 are up 22%, education leaders told the state Board of Education in its Wednesday meeting. The 2021 Excellent Public ...

Texas – Scoring up to 5 points higher on state assessments In the new Texas study, researchers analyzed the 2022 and 2023 State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) Reading ...

"Our assessment of reading comprehension is very surface-level," he said. "We have to figure out a better way to do it. I wouldn't be surprised if AI was part of the solution to get a really good ...

In partnership with diverse elementary schools, we train and support university student tutors in the implementation of assessment-based differentiated reading instruction to improve students’ ...

In the early grades, U.S. schools value reading-comprehension skills over knowledge. The results are devastating, especially for poor kids.

Reading-comprehension assessment: ... Students interact in a 4th grade classroom at William Jefferson Clinton Elementary in Compton, Calif., on Feb. 6, 2025.

As schools around the nation scramble to respond to the alarm bells set off by falling scores on “the nation’s report card,” we—two university professors who teach reading courses and who ...

These assessments set similar criteria for reading proficiency from elementary to high school. At a minimum, learners should be able to locate key ideas and identify their purpose. At the highest ...

Minnesota statewide assessments for reading and math at K-12 public schools are in, and the news is not good. ... At Meadow Lake Elementary, that number was at 89 percent.

More students, however, are at risk of retention this year. A total of 6,470, or 11.6%, of Alabama third graders scored below ...

Keywords reading skills, comprehension, context clues, big ideas, creative reading, word meanings, reading speeds, ... Elementary Reading Skills: Basic Literacy for Elementary School.

For the second straight assessment, the Philippines landed in the bottom 10 out of 81 countries in reading comprehension, mathematics and science and showed minimal improvement, results of the ...