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 ...

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 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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Last year, LaShanta Mire felt good about how her daughter Malaysia was doing in school. Malaysia was a second-grader at Clifford Davis Elementary School in Fort Worth, and she consistently brought ...