Shani Page was 16 when she dropped out of high school. “My grades were bad,” she said. “My attendance was bad. The teachers ain’t have no faith in me. So ...

How do you know if a book is at the right reading level for your 7-year-old child (in 2nd grade)? 1. Glance over the density and size of the text and see if there are illustrations.

A middle-school teacher shared that his eighth-grade class purposefully dropped their reading level to second grade in order to get easier lessons. Unfortunately, while there are "no real ...

All third grade students will receive 10 books selected through the district’s partnership with Scholastic. The district will spend just over $550,000 on the program, officials said. ... To be on ...

78% of second graders are reading on grade level, down two percentage points from last year. That means about 11,662 second graders tested below grade level.

Passing the reading portion of the third-grade annual test, called the Alabama Comprehensive Assessment Program or ACAP, is the quickest way to move on to the fourth grade. All second and third ...

Just under half of Louisiana’s third graders ended last school year reading below or significantly below grade level, according to a report released Tuesday by the state Department of Education.

Louisiana joins more than a dozen states that require third graders who are significantly behind in reading to repeat the grade, according to a 2023 analysis by the Education Commission of the States.

More than 36% of students are on grade level in English language arts, up from about 29% of students last year, according to results from this year's state assessments.

For the past three springs — in 2022, 2023 and 2024 — 23% of DPS K-3 students were reading significantly below grade level, up from 16% in the spring of 2019, according to district data.

That’s why NWEA’s findings for third graders are alarming. The results emerged from an analysis of fall 2022 test scores of seven million elementary and middle school children across the nation, in ...