That was the response from a handful of K-12 teachers—1st grade classroom teachers, high school math teachers, and those in between—to this question posed by Education Week in a recent (unscientific) ...

As students continue to fall behind in reading proficiency in the American education system, some teachers are pleading with parents to help fix the problem. After the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers ...

With little post-pandemic recovery, experts wonder if screen time and school absence are among the causes. By Dana Goldstein In the latest release of federal test scores, educators had hoped to see ...

Learning to read fluently requires hundreds of hours of practice. Some children happily sit and read for hours, but others (especially those with ADHD or dyslexia) cannot. Parents and teachers often ...

"I will get teared up because I think I can't read," fourth grader Raven said. Learning to read isn't fair. It comes naturally for some students. But for others it's a frustrating, agonizing process ...

The 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores underline a continuing decline in educational achievement in the United States. The Institute of Education Sciences’ tendency to ...

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 ...

The reading skills of American students are deteriorating further, according to new national test scores that show no ...