American students are slowly starting to regain academic ground lost during the pandemic, according to nationwide and state testing data compiled by Chalkbeat.
Literacy in the News
When students get to middle and high school without strong reading skills, the results can be devastating.
- By Blake Johnson, Justin Moed, Keith Graves, Kenneth Allen and Will Pritchard
- Literacy
Op/Ed: Literacy is in a crisis for Indianapolis and it's an all-hands-on-deck moment
If you’re reading this letter, you’re engaged in an activity that an average of only 3 out of 10 Indianapolis students in grades 3-8 can read and comprehend proficiently.
- By Isaac Windes
- Literacy
Fort Worth schools nixed a longtime approach to teaching reading. Here’s what changed
Kathryn Cottrell was taught a specific and popular method of teaching students how to read when she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in multidisciplinary studies with a focus on literacy in 2020.
- By Tracie Mauriello
- Literacy
More Michigan third graders could be held back under reading law
Parents of nearly 5,700 Michigan students are getting some unwelcome news: Their third graders could be held back from moving on to the fourth grade because of low reading scores.
- By Ann Schimke
- Literacy
Life is hard for middle and high schoolers who struggle to read. This Colorado public school aims to help.
Kaylee, an eighth-grader in a light blue hoodie, read a list of words, one by one, to teacher Jessica Thurby.
A new report on pandemic learning loss found that high-poverty schools both spent more weeks in remote instruction during 2020-21 and suffered large losses in achievement when they did so.
- By Kim Ward
- Literacy
MSU report finds disparities in districts’ implementation of Michigan third grade literacy law
Read by Grade Three
"One of the valuable things that the children of parents who can afford tutors receive,” Spurlock said, “is an understanding that there is no shame in needing more practice with phonics..."
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