In Salote Faasoo’s class, 8-year-olds trade pencils for Chromebooks as Typing Club lessons help connect letters, language and learning.

"Poor reading skills can limit future educational opportunities, career options and personal growth," Steve Grineski writes.

This story was produced by the Oregon Journalism Project, a nonprofit newsroom covering the state. Earlier this year, the National Assessment of Educational Progress released its annual report card, ...

About 39% of third-graders at Pittsburgh Phillips K-5 on the city's South Side scored 'proficient' or above on 2025 state reading tests. Pittsburgh Public Schools is blaming “inconsistent ...

A record 77.3% of Mississippi third graders passed their initial reading assessment in spring 2025. The total pass rate, including retests, reached 84.6%, a slight increase from the previous school ...

The latest results of Mississippi's third-grade reading test show no dramatic declines in student performance. But they show no significant gains, either. Since 2021-22, the first year of student data ...

JACKSON, Miss. - Eighty-five percent of Mississippi third graders passed their 2024-2025 reading assessments after the school year's final retest, the state's Department of Education announced Friday.

Just over 3,000 third graders were kept from advancing to the fourth grade in 2025 after being unable to pass the Indiana standardized reading test. Data released during the State Board of Education ...

Just under one-third of all Texas school districts have ordered the controversial Bible-infused Bluebonnet materials, according to the Texas Education Agency. Twenty of those 367 districts are in the ...

A controversial reading curriculum with biblical and Christian teachings will be implemented in the Fort Worth Independent School District next school year. The Fort Worth ISD school board approved ...

Michigan's third graders have struggled to pass the state's annual assessment every spring, with the proportion of students passing the test declining nearly every year since the test's inception. In ...

While the Michigan Department of Education leaders praised improvements made by students in some grades in reading and math on the state test, the state's third graders continued to slide in reading ...