Question: How are American students performing in reading · In 2022, the average reading score at both fourth and eighth grade decreased by 3 points compared to 2019. At fourth grade, the average reading score was lower than all previous assessment years going back to 2005 and was not ...

May 17, 2023 - The PIRLS report found that England, Finland and Poland achieved particularly high scores in the reading tests, despite international disruption due to Covid.

Students nationwide experienced across-the-board declines in math and reading on the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress compared with 2019. The steepest declines were in math but sagging reading scores also are a concern · Members of the National Assessment Governing Board believe ...

July 6, 2022 - Politicians and journalists often claim prison planners use third-grade reading scores to predict the number of future prison beds needed. While it has been found that this claim is mostly a myth , there is in fact a strong connection between early low literacy skills and our coun

Literacy rates have been shown to be a key factor in determining outcomes of everything from the likelihood of going to prison. On the other hand, the conditions a person grows up in – such as the literacy rate of their parents and poverty – have a significant impact on a child’s chances ...

Adult literacy rate is the percentage of people ages 15 and above who can both read and write with understanding a short simple statement about their everyday life.

September 18, 2020 - Illiteracy and crime are connected. The Department of Justice states, “The link between academic failure and delinquency, violence, and crime…Read More

May 22, 2023 - Illiteracy is one of the most serious problems that countries of the world suffer from, especially developing countries, which cannot be ignored due to its negative effects on the social, economic, political and environmental levels. It is like a disease that destroys the investments and economic ...

Adult literacy rate is the percentage of people ages 15 and above who can both read and write with understanding a short simple statement about their everyday life.

December 2, 2023 - Student reading scores are up at 75 of California's worst-performing schools, thanks to a targeted program.

In 2022, the illiteracy rate among adults aged 15 years and older was 32 percent in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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February 26, 2024 - Around 187,000 five-year-olds in England – or 30 per cent – are falling behind their expected reading levels

December 9, 2020 - The United States is facing a literacy crisis. Yes, crisis. It isn’t new, but its impacts upon our kids, our economy, and our society are far-reaching and

September 7, 2022 - The country is celebrating the International Literacy Day 2022 today with the theme: Transforming Literacy Learning Spaces

February 9, 2022 - Reading proficiency scores had been getting worse for several years. The pandemic has made a bad situation worse.

The COVID-19 pandemic has been an unprecedented disruption in students’ academic development. Using reading test scores from 5 million U.S. students in grades 3–8, we tracked changes in achievement across the first two years of the pandemic. ...

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The 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading results have been top of mind for us at Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) as well as for many of our partners.