After M-STEP results showed poor proficiency in third grade reading last year, legislators approved bills that would change ...

In many English classrooms across America, assignments to read full-length novels are becoming less common. Some teachers ...

Last year, only about 60% of Pleasant Run students passed IREAD. But this year, the scores jumped 21.5 percentage points one ...

Book Buddies has proved an asset in preparing students to pass IREAD-3, the test given to every one of the state’s third-graders to measure their foundational reading skills.

Every corner of the first-grade wing at Pleasant Run Elementary comes alive during small-group reading time. Teachers and ...

Much of the reading material at Garden ... no longer makes her honors ninth-grade English class read all of “To Kill a Mockingbird.” She assigns about a third of the book and a synopsis ...

The underbelly of grade inflation is that now ... This past year, the SAT reading section moved from using roughly 800-word passages, with many questions, to roughly 50- to 100-word paragraphs ...

30. The results were: In third through eighth-grade reading, proficiency from last year for all but fourth and seventh grades ...

(The Center Square) – Tennessee students could have a third option for a college entrance exam along ... to emphasize foundational logic and reasoning skills while using reading passages from classic ...

Just under half of students in grades 3-8 are considered ... of the three curriculums, Into Reading is organized as an anthology-style textbook packed with passages specifically designed to ...