Reading scores showed smaller improvements prior to 2012. Scores improved about 5 percent among 9-year-olds from 1975 to 2012, 3 percent among 13-year-olds and less than half a point among 17-year ...

More students, however, are at risk of retention this year. A total of 6,470, or 11.6%, of Alabama third graders scored below grade level on recent spring reading tests, new state data shows. That’s ...

On the fourth-grade reading assessment for NAEP, scores in five states, in light blue, declined compared with 2022; no states’ scores improved; and 47 states, including California, saw no ...

NAEP scores: US sees sharp decline in basic reading, math skills among nation's 13-year-olds 'Hope is not lost' The national data shows bright spots in two states. Fourth graders in Louisiana ...

Story continues below chart. "It isn't only pandemic-era losses," Roza said. "Some of that decline in reading nationally was pre-pandemic and in fact over 10 years.

In 2013, the national average NAEP reading score among 4th graders was 221 and Arkansas’s was 219. ... The picture was somewhat brighter on eighth-grade reading, though not math (see charts below.) ...

The reading skills of American students are deteriorating further, according to new national test scores that show no improvement in a yearslong slide. The 67% of eighth-graders who scored at a ...

National reading scores have reached an all-time low. Teachers at Canyon View Junior High have implemented successful strategies to boost scores by encouraging a love of reading.

The Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program scores have been released by the Tennessee Department of Education and the ...

Alabama’s reading scores are improving, but students’ results vary widely between schools and districts. AL.com analyzed the latest 2025 spring reading scores for third- and second-grade students.