Test a group of eighth graders who speak English at home. Is their Reading Comprehension better than non-English speakers?

About 16,238 third graders failed South Carolina reading tests last year. That number has been nearly cut in half.

Reading comprehension tests measure a person’s ability to take only the information given in a passage and pick a conclusion most supported by the text, ...

More students, however, are at risk of retention this year. A total of 6,470, or 11.6%, of Alabama third graders scored below grade level on recent spring reading tests, new state data shows. That’s ...

Earlier studies with wealthier students showed improvements on the standardized reading comprehension test. It’s hard to make sense of why this study showed giant benefits using one measure, but none ...

The FAST tests are given to students three times over the school year, but only the last one counts toward school ...

Why is a student not able to figure out the correct answer to these test questions on this reading comprehension test? This is humiliating. We are especially concerned about the thousands of ...

Little time spent on reading. Teachers spend limited time reading texts with children. “The obvious problem is that it’s hard to support reading comprehension if students are not reading,” said Capin.

It doesn’t take long to figure out 10-year-old Colton Reinhart is a very bright boy. When he talks, words flow from him like ...

Nancy Redding 6 months ago 6 months ago. Thank you for this important article about the work being done on implementation of the reading screening mandate in California. Now that the possible ...