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Commentary: Getting Serious About America's Literacy Time Bomb - Tennessee Star

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The 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress, better known as the Nation’s Report Card, came out in January, and student reading scores slipped once again. About 40% of fourth-graders and 33% of eighth-graders scored below the test’s basic level. Although states like Alabama provided bright spots in this grim picture with improvement in reading and math, the continued overall decline in test scores is bad news for our country and its fut…

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Commentary: Getting Serious About America’s Literacy Time Bomb

by Jeff Minick The 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress, better known as the Nation’s Report Card, came out in January, and student reading scores slipped once again. About 40% of fourth-graders and 33% of eighth-graders scored below the test’s basic level. Although states like Alabama provided bright spots in this grim picture with improvement in reading and math, the continued overall decline in test scores is bad news for our co…

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Getting Serious About America’s Literacy Time Bomb

Being unable to read without a certain level of comprehension affects students in all their academic courses: social studies, science and literature. Without

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