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. Imagine you have a test coming up. Wouldn’t you like to know what might be on it? That may seem like a fair question, but millions ...

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 ...

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 ...

Like most of the nation, California students were stuck in low gear again in 2024. On the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP), they performed significantly below their pre-pandemic ...