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Fourth and eighth graders' literacy skills dipped – once again – on ... The nation's young people scored an average 5 points lower in reading than kids who tested before the COVID-19 pandemic ...
California has released the California Literacy-Biliteracy Professional Learning Pack, a comprehensive suite of resources ...
One Whatcom County elementary school is seeing growth in students’ reading skills after making some significant changes to ...
Reading skills for eighth-graders hit their lowest level since testing began in 1992. Levels for fourth-graders were also ...
Among fourth graders nationally, 40 percent failed to reach the NAEP basic reading skills. That proportion was even larger for some groups when broken down by race, making up more than half of ...
The percentage of eighth graders who have “below basic” reading skills according to NAEP was the largest it has been in the exam’s three-decade history — 33%. The percentage of fourth ...
And if you stuff a child with more knowledge, it’s possible that his reading skills may not improve. Shanahan speculates that if knowledge building does improve reading comprehension, it would take ...
The reading skills of American students are deteriorating further, according to new national test scores that show no improvement in a yearslong slide. The 67% of eighth-graders who scored at a ...
So for the kids that do have all of the reading skills, they may not comprehend what they're reading. But they're going to get something out of the space. So they're going to be able to ...
the damage will be both profound and long-lasting—worsening reading and writing skills and aggravating already-poor performances across science, math, history, and, of course, both reading and ...