“At least half of kids in the U.S. are not getting effective reading instruction.” Other experts agree. Ted Mitchell, an education veteran at nearly every level who is now president of the ...

According to 2022 data, most state reading standards are closer to the NAEP Basic level, and 67% of eighth-graders in 2024 met that standard. On May 15, 2025, U.S. Education Secretary Linda ...

In fourth-grade reading, students who score below the basic level on NAEP cannot sequence events from a story or describe the effects of a character’s actions. In eighth grade, students who ...

Idaho invests $5M in phonics-based teacher training to support K-3 literacy, aligning with the proven Science of Reading to ...

In 1998, 47 percent of students in Mississippi performed at or above the basic level ... master’s level professional development course grounded in the science of reading, explained Wynn.

A global learning crisis is unfolding, with millions of children worldwide lacking basic reading and math skills. UNESCO's report reveals that six in ten children globally are not proficient by the ...

One in three Minnesota fourth graders cannot read at a “basic” level for their grade, according to 2022 reading test results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

The 67% of eighth-graders who scored at a basic or better reading level in 2024 was the lowest share since testing began in 1992, results from a closely watched federal exam show. Only 60% of ...

The situation remains alarming, and there hasn’t been any improvement. That stark assessment of the state of academic success of students in Milwaukee Public Schools emerges from a new wave of ...

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 ...