Each April, all 3rd through 5th graders in my school take the DC-CAS—a standardized, summative assessment of grade-level skills in reading and math. It is a grueling eight-day test paralyzing the ...
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 ...
A new book argues for the importance of national assessments in the U.S. but overlooks the negative impact of "reading" tests. Few Americans know much about the standardized tests collectively known ...
Test scores show American students have made no progress in reading for two decades, and experts are speculating on the cause of the stagnation. Here’s one reason that few have focused on: the nature ...
Project 75 is a reading initiative with an ambitious goal: to boost the percentage of third-graders in Jackson who pass the state assessment on the first attempt from 55% to 75%. Cormack presented his ...
Data from federal standardized test scores points to another startling effect the COVID-19 pandemic had on America's children, with numbers indicating that reading and math scores for 13-year-olds ...
The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Andrea Yon is ...
Third graders can’t read. That’s a common assertion. How do we know? Colorado’s CMAS standardized tests for third graders ...
HOUSTON — Many teachers on social media are asking whether the STAAR test is too hard for kids after a popular article suggested many tests are between one to three grade levels too advanced. “I’m not ...
The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. A mounting body ...
Psychologists love to measure things, and perhaps nothing has been measured as much by psychologists as reading—both texts and readers. Multiple different instruments measuring text readability have ...
The results of the test, which assesses a sample of fourth- and eighth-grade students, will inevitably prompt demands for policy change. By Erica L. Green and Dana Goldstein WASHINGTON — America’s ...