Researchers are warning that the U.S. is experiencing a reading recession, a slide that predates the COVID-19 pandemic.

The release of TCAP reading scores set off a fast-moving timeline for Tennessee third graders to avoid being held back.

Student reading scores were declining before the COVID-19 pandemic. Then, the slide got worse. Recent bright spots of ...

Before every important test, teacher Nancy Barajas dims the lights, turns on a disco ball and blasts music from her playlist. Her sixth graders dance together as a “pre-celebration” to boost their ...

The pandemic-era backslide in math and reading scores for students across the U.S. was not a sudden catastrophe but the continuation of a brutal, decade-long "learning recession" that began years ...

Cell phone bans in schools are working—at least as far as keeping kids off their phones during school, according to a new working paper. But the bans, which have been touted by researchers, educators ...

The West Side elevated highway was a miracle: lanes snaking down the edge of Manhattan, a symbol of New Deal–era infrastructure investment in the United States’ biggest city. In 1973, it collapsed.

The drops go beyond the pandemic and cut across income, geographic and racial divides, new data shows. By Claire Cain Miller Francesca Paris and Sarah Mervosh Something troubling is happening in U.S.

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