New national test scores show a bleak picture of American education in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Fourth and eighth graders' literacy skills dipped – once again – on the U.S. Department ...

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Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. When is a reading test not a true reading test? Most of the time. For years, cognitive ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — It's a cliché that Kymyona Burk heard a little too often: "Thank God for Mississippi." As the state's literacy director, she knew politicians in other states would say it when their ...

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Michigan's third graders ― at a stage of development when stakes are high to master reading — slid in those scores on the state M-STEP test compared with 2023, while elementary schoolers largely ...