Each April, all 3rd through 5th graders in my school take the DC-CAS—a standardized, summative assessment of grade-level skills in reading and math. It is a grueling eight-day test paralyzing the ...

America’s children have continued to lose ground on reading skills in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and have made little improvement in math, according to the latest results of an exam known as ...

RALEIGH, N.C.— Starting in third grade, your child will begin taking standardized tests in North Carolina. What do they take and when? It all depends on the grade and school district they are in. What ...

The “science of reading” is making its way onto more governors’ and state legislators’ priority lists as the 2024 legislative session gets underway. In Massachusetts, Gov. Maura Healey, a Democrat, ...

According to Oklahoma Department of Education, about 80 percent of the state’s third-graders passed reading tests with scores good enough to allow them to move up to fourth grade. However, statistics ...

Middle school students struggled with STAAR tests in reading, writing, math and social studies while elementary students showed improvement in most assessments, according to a preliminary 2016 ...

A record 77.3% of Mississippi third graders passed their initial reading assessment in spring 2025. Mississippi's Literacy-Based Act requires third-grade students to pass the reading test to be ...