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 ...

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 ...

The government says assessments are "vital tools" for identifying areas where pupils need extra support.

“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 ...

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 Alabama Board of Education on Thursday voted 7-to-2 to raise the score requirement on the state’s third grade reading test - the first hurdle determining whether the student moves to fourth grade ...

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 ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – The Indiana Reading Evaluation and Determination (IREAD-3) exam has been a familiar milestone for Indiana’s third graders, but this year, students could be at risk for being ...

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” ...

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