JUPITER, Fla. (CBS12) — Students across the state have just finished up their FAST tests – that’s the state-required standardized tests that, starting in 3rd grade, they need to pass to make it to the ...

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 ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Andrea Yon is ...

Project 75 is a reading initiative with an ambitious goal: to boost the percentage of third-graders in Jackson who pass the state assessment on the first attempt from 55% to 75%. Cormack presented his ...

The number of Michigan third-graders who are proficient in reading — a pivotal benchmark in education — has slid to its lowest point in the 10-year history of the state assessment test, according 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 ...

In the latest confirmation that extended pandemic-era school closures took a huge toll on a generation of young Oregonians, new federal test results show the state’s middle and elementary students ...

High school seniors had the worst reading scores since 1992 on a national test, a loss probably related to increases in screen time and the pandemic. Their math scores fell as well. By Dana Goldstein ...

Year 8 pupils in England will have to sit reading tests at school under government plans due to be released this autumn, the BBC understands. The mandatory tests, first reported by Schools Week, would ...

All secondary-age school pupils in year eight (aged 12 and 13) in England will be required by the government to take a reading test. The declared purpose is to help drive up reading standards so that ...