Just 44% of third graders were proficient in reading at the end of the 2024-2025 school year, down from 46% the year prior.

Jamilah Watson, a reading tutor with the program Reading Assist, works with a rising kindergartner at Stubbs Early Education Center in Wilmingon, Delaware. This was the first year that Reading Assist ...

Many states have recently enacted laws or rules designed to ensure that teachers are well versed in evidence-based reading instruction. Here are some highlights. Requires districts to provide core ...

The decline in reading proficiency among third graders has been attributed to ‘inconsistent implementation’ of teaching strategies across the district. Superintendent Wayne Walters emphasized the need ...

American students’ reading scores have stagnated for more than 30 years. What needs to change? Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for ...

The statistics are well known: only 35 percent of students are reading proficiently by grade 4, and NAEP reading scores are the lowest in decades. Although most students can learn to read, the ...

In 2019, two-thirds of American fourth-graders scored below "proficient" in reading in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, scores declined ...

New data and analysis from the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) show that while many states seek to improve literacy outcomes for students, they focus too little on a key component to strong ...

This summer, New York City schools are preparing for a shift in reading instruction, and recent reports indicate that it’s not just for lower grades, but for high schools as well. One shift in ...

Academy Hill School educators are taking part in a statewide literacy initiative aimed at strengthening reading instruction.