Getting Serious About America’s Literacy Time Bomb1

• Education, Featured, History, Uncategorized
• February 12, 2025

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