In 2015, Minnesota’s Northfield Public Schools had a district-wide gut check. The pre-K-12 district serves 4000 kids, and that year a new state law requiring that all high school juniors take the ACT ...
Andres Villegas is a serious, quiet 11-year-old who has loved to read since he was 4 — especially Harry Potter and science fiction. But whenever he was asked to read aloud, his palms would get sweaty ...
Last Wednesday, 11-year-old Geniya sat in a corner of the library at Ockley Green Middle School in North Portland, where she’ll be a sixth grader this fall, intently concentrating on spelling the word ...
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Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. Many teenagers who’ve spent time in California’s juvenile detention facilities get high school diplomas with grade-school reading skills.
At one Tucson Unified School District K-8 school, the math, reading and writing skills of sixth through eighth graders are slightly lower or about the same as those of fifth graders. At one district ...
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana students are finding success in reading like never before. According to the Indiana Department of Education, Indiana achievement in fourth grade reading improved to sixth in the ...