Chicago Public Schools third- through eighth-grade state test scores increased in 2024, with reading finally surpassing 2019 ...

Political speeches are ramping up as the US prepares for the election on 5 November, with a host of different styles and tactics being used. Studies have shown that as the literacy rates in a county ...

It also makes reading smoother. Readers are more likely to return ... Regardless of the target audience, writing at an eighth-grade level is a great goal. The Hemingway App is a helpful tool for ...

to calculate a readability score for each ballot proposal and—though not mandating it—strongly encourages a reading level of ...

The first, Proposition 1, is designed to enshrine abortion rights in the state Constitution. The rest would make changes to ...

Students now seem increasingly incapable of reading whole books ... Only 17% of third-to-eighth-grade teachers said they primarily teach whole texts, a recent EdWeek Research Center survey ...

At the beginning of the last school year, the oral reading proficiency of nearly 80 Whelan Elementary School first graders was very low. First graders at the school could only identify and read about ...

I have read The Hobbit so many times that I lost count of the rereads sometime around eighth grade. Even though I never use ...

The grades on the school report cards are determined by the school’s grade level proficiency (students that scored at least a 3, 4 or 5 on end-of-grade or end-of-course tests) and the school’s growth.

For David Gilbert, a budding filmmaker and Greely Middle School eighth-grader ... You know, just reading books, finding sources online. Something NHD taught me is that you always want to go ...

Our students have a limited background in grade-level science topics ... noting that "the state has the best fourth-grade reading and eighth-grade math scores in the country on the National Assessment ...