In 2024, 70% of U.S. eighth-graders did not meet the "National Assessment of Educational Progress Proficient" reading achievement level on a test often referred to as the "Nation's Report Card." ...

An eighth-grade history teacher in Dallas, Texas, says only two of her 110 students can read at grade level, a revelation ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — The Arkansas Attorney General has, for the first time, rejected a ballot title for a proposed constitutional amendment on the grounds that it does not comply with a new law that ...

The Arkansas House of Representatives passed legislation to require ballot language for citizen-initiated measures to not be written above an eighth grade reading level. House Bill 1713, by state Rep.

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – As the Presidential campaign continues, candidates are using simpler language in their speeches and campaigns. The analysis was conducted by Carnegie Mellon University's Language ...

PITTSBURGH--A readability analysis of presidential candidate speeches by researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute (LTI) finds most candidates using words and grammar ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this story omitted New Mexico from the list of states that saw increases in NAEP reading scores between 2007 and 2009 at the 8th grade level only. Reading scores ...