American teachers and students are captives of a broken assessment system. Interim reading assessments frustrate teachers and students and devalue what students are learning, even though they’re ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Earlier this summer, the curriculum and assessment company Amplify reported that 70% of kindergartners and first graders were on ...

The first thing Havah Kelley noticed was her son’s trouble with the alphabet. The San Francisco mom reviewed letters with him for hours at a time, reciting their names and tracing their shapes. But ...

“Data-driven” instruction makes sense only if the data that’s driving it makes sense. And much of the data used to guide reading instruction doesn’t. Throughout the school year, classrooms across the ...

January 29, 2026 - In 1985, Merryl Goldberg went to the Soviet Union and met The Phantom Orchestra. To help them she made up a secret code, hidden in sheet music. This story was updated on Nov. 15 to ...

Alabama’s public elementary and middle school students are taking annual standardized tests this month, and for third graders, the reading portion is extremely important. This is the first school year ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — Most Florida students are reading below grade level, according to results from the state’s new testing system. The state’s new “Florida Assessment of Student Thinking” ...

Minnesota students’ reading and math scores on state proficiency tests have leveled off a bit, but they still haven’t recovered from a big dip during the pandemic, according to data released Thursday ...

Kentucky students performed better in 2024-2025 than in recent years across several grade levels and subjects, state Department of Education officials said Wednesday as statewide testing data was ...