The tests used to determine whether students are reading at grade level go well beyond simply being able to read.

The cutoff scores used to determine reading competency levels are set more or less arbitrarily by “expert” panels, panels that rarely agree with each other.

The Mississippi Department of Education this week released sample questions from a third-grade reading test that will determine the fate of some 38,000 students statewide. The Third-Grade Reading ...

About half of those students took a second reading test and 2,500 subsequently reached grade level. What did last year’s scores tell us about student reading progress?

HOUSTON — Many teachers on social media are asking whether the STAAR test is too hard for kids after a popular article suggested many tests are between one to three grade levels too advanced.

Many Texas students who were told they had not reached grade-level reading expectations on the Staar test also received separate scores that are at grade level.

More than half of Tennessee's public school third graders fell short of the state's reading benchmark on this year's TCAP ...

Reading skills for eighth-graders hit their lowest level since testing began in 1992. Levels for fourth-graders were also near record lows as educators struggle to keep students engaged in a post ...

Eight different readability formulas showed the test's reading portions are at a higher level of difficulty than appropriate for the grades they’re assessing.

The reading skills of American students are deteriorating further, according to new national test scores that show no improvement in a yearslong slide. The 67% of eighth-graders who scored at a ...

In reading, 628 Patterson High School students took the test. Out of those students, 484 of them, or 77%, tested at an elementary school reading level.

The results of Florida's third-grade reading test, released Wednesday, will help educators determine where children found success and where they need more attention, officials say.