As states rush to address falling literacy scores, a new kind of education debate in state legislatures is taking hold: not ...

Overall, student scores declined slightly in reading — less than one percentage point — with 46.7% achieving state learning standards for their grade, compared with 47.1% the year before.

This is the second year the state has tested learners in kindergarten through third grade with the literacy screener. The Fall report after the first screener of the school year shows that students’ ...

While 60% of third graders fell short as the state reading law rolled out for the first time ... whose scores fall short can meet exemptions that allow them move on to fourth grade without any ...