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"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 ...

There’s yet more evidence that students have lost significant ground following the wobbly shift to pandemic-era remote classes that stretched for months: New data show the nation’s 13-year-olds are ...

The first step to boosting reading scores statewide is believing that students can and will make great strides if educators are committed to seeing it happen. That was a key message from Carey Wright, ...

Dylan Mayes, left, reads from a book about Willie Mays during a reading circle in class on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022, in Niagara Falls, N.Y. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to ...

BROWNSVILLE, Texas — It’s nearly 5 p.m. on a Friday, and Dolores S. Perez is hard at work in the Brownsville Public Library. She’s also one of the people having the most fun. Parsing education data ...

The ASER reading test assesses whether a child can read letters, words, a simple paragraph class first level of difficulty, or a “story” class second level of difficulty. The basic reading ability of ...

Post-pandemic, there has been a major decline in children’s reading abilities in states such as Kerala, Himachal Pradesh and Haryana. As per the ASER report, there was a drop in maths skills in ...