Specifically, 35% of fourth graders were proficient in reading in 2019, slightly down from 37% in 2017 and barely up from 33% of such students considered proficient a decade ago, in 2009.

Almost five years have passed since COVID-19 first disrupted America's schools, and new data, known as the Nation's Report Card, offers cause for hope — and concern. The good news: In math, many ...

Engle has been teaching at Brietling for her entire teaching career—that’s about 5 years at this point. And she thinks teaching first-graders is exactly where she needs to be.