Every March since 1998, the National Education Association has used its Read Across America initiative to promote literacy and encourage a love of reading among children. It’s a wonderful program that ...

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Heather Miller, a first grade teacher in Austin, Texas, works with a small group of students in her classroom on reading skills. Credit: Jackie Mader/ The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers ...

The National Assessment of Educational Progress is a federal program that measures student achievement at three grades (4, 8, 12) across a range of skills, subjects and variables. Student achievement ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s children have continued to lose ground on reading skills in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and have made little improvement in math, according to the latest results of ...

Data from federal standardized test scores points to another startling effect the COVID-19 pandemic had on America's children, with numbers indicating that reading and math scores for 13-year-olds ...

Smart serves as affiliated faculty in educational policy and leadership in the College of Education at Marquette University and is the author of Reading for Our Lives: A Literacy Action Plan from ...

In the U.S., 36 million adults lack the basic literacy skills needed to land family-supporting jobs—they struggle to read a street sign, a pay stub, or a menu. Yet education programs for this group ...

New Jersey teachers are no longer required to take a basic skills test in reading, writing and math to get a license under new bipartisan legislation Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law last year. The ...

Gen Z's adult lives are complicated and complex, fueled by a number of factors like social media, a tumultuous social environment, and a collective lack of belonging. From building communities to ...