EdSurge

Reading Skills Are in Sharp Decline. Rescuing Them Won't be Easy.

This article is part of the collection: Data Bytes: Parsing Education Data Into Snack-Size Servings. BROWNSVILLE, Texas — It’s nearly 5 p.m. on a Friday, and Dolores S. Perez is hard at work in the ...
EdSurge

Nation’s Report Card Shows Students Struggle With Basic Reading Skills

The pandemic jostled students off course, disrupting learning around the country. Billions in federal relief dollars later and rigorous assessments show that students are still struggling to recover.
Education Week

Teachers Are Still Teaching Older Students Basic Reading Skills, Survey Finds

Phonics gets more attention in elementary English/language arts classrooms than other core foundational reading skills, like fluency. More generally, states’ new reading laws emphasizing foundational ...
Yahoo

Record level of eighth graders lack basic reading skills, national assessment shows

A student exits a school bus as they arrive to Creative Arts Secondary School on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025, in Saint Paul, Minn. (Ellen Schmidt/Minnesota Reformer) The share of Minnesota eighth graders ...
Education Week

Even in Math, Teachers See a Chance to Boost Students’ Reading Skills

Last week, Alexis Sorenson introduced her 8th graders to algebraic expressions with a lesson on Greek language roots rather than formulas. Sorenson, a math teacher at Cloquet Middle School in the ...
Phys.org

Reading skills of young students stalled during pandemic

A study by researchers at Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE) provides new evidence about the pandemic's impact on learning among students in the earliest grades, showing distinct changes in ...