“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 ...

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 ...

The vast majority of high school seniors have the most basic reading ... Development, a Paris-based think tank that has been cited as this statistic’s source, "doesn’t employ grade-level ...

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.

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 ...

Fed up parents, civil rights activists, newly awakened educators and lawmakers are crusading for “the science of reading ... States cannot read at a basic level of comprehension, according ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...