New national test scores show a bleak picture of American education in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Fourth and eighth graders' literacy skills dipped – once again – on the U.S. Department ...

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Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. When is a reading test not a true reading test? Most of the time. For years, cognitive ...

Parents and teachers at Los Angeles Unified School District will soon have a new tool to help identify students who may be struggling to read—before they fall too far behind. The school board on ...

Cleveland Elementary School teacher Katia Rodriguez-Mester, left, shows an mCLASS reading test to Principal Gabriel Sandoval and Denise Alvarado, executive director of elementary education for the ...