So, 2025 was the year everyone grew terribly concerned about declining literacy rates in the West. Yes, we heard a few grumblings about it before – about the students at elite universities who ...

“We do one book after state testing, and we did ‘The Great Gatsby.’ … A lot of kids had not read a novel in class before.” — Laura Henry, 10th-grade English teacher near Houston “My son in 9th grade ...

Teachers have always known which students will struggle long before any third-grade test. In pre-K and kindergarten, we can clearly identify who is not developmentally or academically ready for ...