There are varying assessments for reading comprehension in New Hanover County’s elementary schools. So what does each tell ...

Text readability encompasses two aspects, namely, ease of comprehension and ease of processing (in relation to the effort ...

Phonics gets more attention in elementary English/language arts classrooms than other core foundational reading skills, like fluency. More generally, states’ new reading laws emphasizing foundational ...

In the history of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), eighth-grade reading scores have never been this ...

Helping students learn to read is usually the job of early elementary educators. But teachers of older children—who report that nearly half of their students have difficulty reading—say they need more ...

After decades of stagnating reading performance, American literacy levels have begun to drop, according to the National ...

More than half of Louisiana children from poor families start kindergarten without basic reading skills — and most fail to catch up by third grade, a critical year for literacy development, according ...

The National Assessment of Educational Progress is a federal program that measures student achievement at three grades (4, 8, 12) across a range of skills, subjects and variables. Student achievement ...