Though a majority of third graders did not hit a critical reading benchmark, the 2025 scores show a slight improvement over ...

Nearly 1 in 4 third graders risked being retained under Louisiana's new reading law, but far fewer are likely to be held back ...

U.S. students at a plateau: At 4th and 8th grade, reading and math scores haven't budged The pattern of decline concentrated among the lowest-performing students – across multiple grade levels ...

SEATTLE — State and federal education spending for K-12 schools in Washington is way up, but test scores in fourth grade reading and eighth grade math are dropping, according to a non-partisan ...

For Detroit's fourth-grade reading, the score dropped two points to 174 in 2024 from 176 in 2022. Fourth-grade math scores in Detroit improved 6 points to 200 last year from 194 in 2022.

According to the NAEP, Michigan ranked 44th in the nation for fourth-grade reading and 31st for eighth-grade math in 2024. The NAEP uses scale scores to report student performance.