Recent STAAR test results show that while Texas students increased literacy rates slightly, nearly half of students in third ...

What's True: In 2024, 70% of U.S. eighth-graders did not meet the "National Assessment of Educational Progress Proficient" reading achievement level on a test often referred to as the "Nation's ...

McMahon appeared to be referencing National Assessment of Educational Progress proficiency scores, which do not indicate grade-level performance.

Efficient comprehension requires the ability to relate the textual material to one's own knowledge. As Anderson (1977, p.369) point out, "every act of comprehension involves one’s knowledge of the ...

READING, Pa. – The Reading City Revitalization and Improvement Zone Authority voted Monday afternoon to approve a revised CRIZ zone map that eliminates the city's waterfront and instead includes ...

READING, Pa. – The newly-formed CRIZ authority met Thursday evening and approved its zone plan and zone map in anticipation of the submission of its formal application to the Pennsylvania ...

Reading comprehension is difficult to define because it is a complex process built on many skills. Steve McKee, in a 2012 journal article for Language Testing in Asia, discusses how reading ...

In them meeting, the last of the 2023-2024 school year, discussed rest results from the district’s NWEA Map Growth test. The assessment measures achievement and growth in K–12 math, reading ...