‘Mississippi marathon’ continues: 85% of third-graders pass reading test

The latest results of Mississippi’s third-grade reading test show no dramatic declines in student performance. But they show ...
Education Week

There’s a Design Flaw With Many Reading Tests. Here’s One State’s Fix

Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. When is a reading test not a true reading test? Most of the time. For years, cognitive ...
Los Angeles Times

How Mississippi gamed its national reading test scores to produce ‘miracle’ gains

The term has been shooting around the education field and news reports lately with increasing frequency: “the Mississippi miracle.” The reference is to that benighted state’s surprising success in ...
Detroit Free Press

M-STEP scores show 3rd graders continue to slide in reading, rebound in math

Michigan's third graders ― at a stage of development when stakes are high to master reading — slid in those scores on the state M-STEP test compared with 2023, while elementary schoolers largely ...