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 ...

The 3.4 million U.S. students tested included fourth, eighth and 12th graders. The tests showed that by the fourth grade, girls scored much higher than boys in reading and writing. This disparity ...

The nation’s 4th and 8th graders have inched up in mathematics, new test data show, but the results are more mixed in reading, with 4th grade scores flat compared with two years ago.

UPDATE 4:05 p.m. – Parents and teachers will now have more of a say in the third grade reading test. Two-thirds of the House and Senate voted to override Gov. Fallin’s veto of House Bill 2625 ...

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.

"Our fourth grade reading scores are virtually the same compared to 2022, and almost identical to 20 years ago. In mathematics, we also see outcomes that, while higher than most states, ...