Eighty-five percent of poor 4th graders in predominantly low-income schools are failing to reach “proficient” levels in reading on federal tests, according to a new study by a national foundation that ...

In fourth-grade English, your fourth-grader will learn to read, discuss, and write about complicated stories, rich poems, plays, informational books, and articles. Your child will also learn to show ...

The results of the test, which assesses a sample of fourth- and eighth-grade students, will inevitably prompt demands for policy change. By Erica L. Green and Dana Goldstein WASHINGTON — America’s ...

For the first few years of school, struggling readers can usually get by. The material is simple, the lessons are repeated often, and intensive remedial help is common. But for some of those pupils, ...

Elementary and middle-school students are making across-the-board gains in math and more modest progress in reading, national test results out Tuesday show. The scores on the National Assessment of ...

The fourth graders in Jeremy Lowe’s class at Atlanta’s Parkside Elementary School are on a tight deadline. They have only five minutes to write a dramatic “warm-up play” with characters, a setting, ...

On their face, Texas' scores on the "Nation's Report Card" — near the bottom in reading achievement, roughly average in math compared the 50 states and District of Columbia — reflect a state in ...