Compared to Fordham’s last big survey on common-core reading, in 2012, the proportion of teachers reporting using “grade level” texts rather than texts based on students’ reading levels ...

Despite Common Core and more testing, reading and math scores haven't budged in a decade. ... Washington, D.C., students showed big gains in fourth grade reading and eighth grade math.

In last year’s statewide Common Core-related PARCC test, just 24 percent of the students at Esteves’ school met grade-level expectations in reading and writing, a category called English language arts ...

Part 1 in a four-part series on reading in the Common Core era. The Common Core State Standards are changing what many kids read in school. They're standards, sure — not curriculum. Teachers and ...

Only one-third of fourth- and eighth-grade students—36 percent and 34 percent, respectively—performed at the proficient level or higher in reading, according to the most recent data, on the ...

Fordham stands by the Core's insistence that students be given grade-level texts rather than reading-level texts (in other words, if your eighth grader is reading at fourth grade level, she should ...

The Common Core says that there are exceptions within reading-level systems, and MetaMetrics has made some adjustments to its numbers in the past couple of years.

Common Core may have, at ... (Or “How Common Core Almost Broke Reading”) ByPeter Greene. ... (just because I can read a high-level book about dinosaurs doesn’t mean I can also read a ...

The Common Core State Standards are changing reading instruction in many schools. And that means new challenges for lots of students, even traditional high achievers.

Part 2 in a four-part series on reading in the Common Core era. Linnea Wolters was prepared to hate the Common Core State Standards. She taught fifth grade at a low-income school in Reno, Nev ...

In last year’s statewide Common Core-related PARCC test, just 24 percent of the students at Esteves’ school met grade-level expectations in reading and writing, a category called English ...