More than one in three students who started school during coronavirus pandemic restrictions are reading far below grade level and have little chance of recovering by the end of the school year.
Seventy-seven percent of a Baltimore, Maryland, high school student population reads at an “elementary school level” and “some at a kindergarten level,” according to a teacher who says the students are “pushed through” the system anyway.
A measure of long-term trends in the assessment of 13-year-olds’ reading and math achievement has revealed a statistically significant drop in scores over the past eight years, another outcome that points to the failure of the Common Core State Standards.
A heartwarming image of a firefighter reading to a little girl after a car crash in Billings, Montana, was captured on the evening of Wednesday, September 29.
Orion Jean may be young, but he is on a mission to spread the gift of reading with hundreds-of-thousands of children.
A group of asylum seekers being housed at the expense of the British taxpayer in a Reading hotel have staged a hunger strike, protesting against the quality of the free food they are given.
Relatives of a migrant terrorist’s victims are demanding “meaningful change” after it emerged that he had racked up seven convictions for 19 offences without being deported.
A terrorist asylum seeker who “executed” three men with a knife and wounded three others in a public park in Reading, England has received a rare whole-life sentence.
Failed asylum seeker Khairi Saadallah avoided deportation to Libya for more than seven years before going on a murderous stabbing spree that authorities labelled a terror attack because human rights laws forbid deporting foreigners if their native country is unstable.
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) announced Tuesday the U.S. math and reading assessments known as the “Nation’s Report Card” will be postponed until 2022 due largely to the reliance on remote learning during the coronavirus pandemic.
Khairi Saadallah, 25, has appeared before Westminster Magistrates’ Court on charges of murdering three men and the attempted murder of three other men in a park in Reading, in what police have described as a terrorist incident.
My hero of the week is Jake Hepple, who paid for that plane banner after the murder of three innocent people in England at the weekend.
Khairi Saadallah, the Libyan refugee who has been detained on suspicion of perpetrating the knife attack in Reading, was released early from prison, was enrolled in the government’s Prevent deradicalisation scheme, and is believed to have been known to the UK’s security services as a possible terror suspect before the attack.
Three people have been stabbed to death while sitting in a park in Reading, England. OK – so when do the protests start?
A 39-year-old American man has been identified as one of the victims of a vicious knife attack in Reading, which authorities are terming a “terrorist incident” that saw three people die and another three left injured. Joe Ritchie-Bennett, a native
The suspect in a knife rampage in Reading, England, which left three dead and three injured has been named as Khairi Saadallah, described by the BBC as a “25-year-old Libyan national from Reading”.
Police have officially declared a deadly stabbing spree in Reading, England, a “terrorist incident”. Video footage on social media showed multiple people with serious injuries being treated by emergency workers in Forbury Gardens after a reportedly unrelated Black Lives Matter event in the area.
Two Wall Street Journal reporters write that the national experiment in remote learning, courtesy of the coronavirus pandemic, has failed.
Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama have broadcast themselves reading a children’s book aloud to the interwebs while “Obamagate” revelations about former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn have erupted.
Michelle Obama, publishers, and taxpayer-funded public television are presenting a weekly story time for coronavirus homebound children.
More Americans chose to visit their local library rather than take a trip to the movies in 2019, according to a Gallup poll published Friday.
The New York Public Library (NYPL) has revealed the list of its ten most borrowed books since it opened in 1895.
Results of an international assessment found American teens showed no improvement in reading, math, and science compared to the 2015 results.
Nearly half of all Conservative voters back swingeing carbon reduction measures even more drastic than the insane ones already proposed by the government, according to a poll currently being bigged up excitedly by the Guardian.
Results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as the Nation’s Report Card, shows U.S. school children have made “no progress” in reading or mathematics over the past ten years.
Christian-led American family restaurant chain Chick-fil-A will lose its first British branch after lobbying by the LGBT community.
A barber from Kutztown, Pennsylvania, is paying kids to read a book while getting their haircut to promote literacy.
Thames Valley Police are seeking an ‘Asian’ man after a teenage girl was beaten and sexually assaulted in Berkshire, England. The young victim was grabbed from behind while walking along a footpath off Hyde End Lane in the village of
Most public school teachers say mass immigration has a “mixed” or a “negative” impact on American schoolkids.
A four-year-old Chicago boy has done the unthinkable for someone his age, reading 100 books in a single day—and his parents recorded every moment of it.
Mass immigration to the United States has had a depressing impact on reading and math proficiency skills among immigrant students, a new study finds.
Only 37 percent of U.S. 12th graders were prepared for college-level coursework in mathematics and reading in 2016, but many public school districts have become fixated on the latest progressive trend of “social and emotional learning.”
U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. explains that the just-released dismal National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test results need to be viewed in light of the seven years of “significant changes” in America’s classrooms due to the Common Core standards.
About 37 percent of U.S. 12th-graders are prepared for college-level coursework in mathematics and in reading, according to the 2015 results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). That’s down from the 2013 assessments.
The results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) assessments–known as the Nation’s Report Card–show that only a third of the nation’s eighth graders are at or above the proficiency level in math and only 34 percent are at or above the same level in reading.
Results of national tests administered to approximately 600,000 students across the country demonstrate that – for the first time since the early 1990s – math scores of fourth and eighth graders have dropped. Eighth grade reading scores declined as well, and those for fourth graders remained flat.
