The southern region of the U.S. has a lower literacy rate than states further north, data from the National Center of Education Statistics shows. In 2024, 21 percent of adults in the U.S. were ...

The percentage of eighth graders who have “below basic” reading skills according to NAEP was the largest it has been in the ...

ATLAS assessments test students’ literacy rates, as well as grade-level standards ... restrictions on the LRSD after it had been taken over by the state for academic distress.