KQED

Students’ Reading Struggles Tied to Flawed Assessment. So Why Do Schools Use It?

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 ...
Education Week

There’s a Design Flaw With Many Reading Tests. Here’s One State’s Fix

Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. When is a reading test not a true reading test? Most of the time. For years, cognitive ...
Forbes

To Make Progress In Reading, We Need To Monitor It Differently

“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 ...
Detroit Free Press

M-STEP scores show 3rd graders continue to slide in reading, rebound in math

Michigan's third graders ― at a stage of development when stakes are high to master reading — slid in those scores on the state M-STEP test compared with 2023, while elementary schoolers largely ...
Education Week

Most Licensure Tests Are Weak Measures of Teachers’ ‘Science of Reading’ Knowledge

Most tests that elementary teachers take to enter the profession don’t adequately measure their knowledge of best practices for reading instruction, a new analysis contends. The report, from the ...
The Conversation

Texas’ annual reading test adjusted its difficulty every year, masking whether students are improving

Memorial University of Newfoundland provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. Memorial University of Newfoundland provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Texas ...