The first thing Havah Kelley noticed was her son’s trouble with the alphabet. The San Francisco mom reviewed letters with him for hours at a time, reciting their names and tracing their shapes. But ...

“Data-driven” instruction makes sense only if the data that’s driving it makes sense. And much of the data used to guide reading instruction doesn’t. Throughout the school year, classrooms across the ...

Newly released grade-level reading test scores show some hiccups in the rollout of Idaho’s new reading test given to students in grades K-3. School districts across Idaho are figuring out what works ...

A new book argues for the importance of national assessments in the U.S. but overlooks the negative impact of "reading" tests. Few Americans know much about the standardized tests collectively known ...

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The number of Michigan third-graders who are proficient in reading — a pivotal benchmark in education — has slid to its lowest point in the 10-year history of the state assessment test, according to ...