Academic performance continues to disappoint: The average reading score for the nation’s twelfth-graders declined between 2015 and 2019 and there was no statistically significant change in twelfth-graders’ average mathematics score…
According to a recent article in Carolina Journal by reporter Lindsay Marchello, the reading comprehension company, Istation, has sent cease-and-desist letters to three individuals who have publicly criticized the state’s…
Terry Stoops writes for the Martin Center about problems associated with the way public school teachers approach reading instruction. No cliché is more ubiquitous at teacher protests than signs that…
Jill Barshay contributing editor of The Hechinger Report sounds the alarm, The latest Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) — a reading comprehension test given to fourth graders in 58 countries…
Today the U.S. Department of Education released results of the vocabulary component of the 2013 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading assessment. State-level data were not available.
OK, all you Common-Core, grade-level proficient children. Use your astronomical reading comprehension skills to tell me what the bleep this article is saying. I want you to humor me. Don’t…
The local daily headlined, “Light turnout in Asheville mayoral primary.” Recalling the election day when two precincts burned down in Chicago, I envisioned somebody running out the door with boxes…
Click here to view and here to listen to Dr. Terry Stoops discussing this Spotlight report. RALEIGH — Legislators and the State Board of Education should take steps to ensure…
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) released an assessment of vocabulary comprehension among fourth- and eighth-grade students who took the NAEP reading test in 2009 and 2011. Overall, fourth-…
Given Republican legislative leaders’ interest in ensuring that third-graders exhibit proficiency in reading, you might be curious to learn what TIME magazine has to say about the topic this week.…
View in your browser. Welcome Last week, the Republican leadership in the North Carolina Senate released details of the Excellent Public Schools Act. Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Berger, a…
The state is redoing its reading tests for grades 3 – 8. The old tests were absurdly easy, with nearly 90 percent of students in the state fund to be…