Reading scores showed smaller improvements prior to 2012. Scores improved about 5 percent among 9-year-olds from 1975 to 2012, 3 percent among 13-year-olds and less than half a point among 17-year ...

Reading scores on the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress fell two points, on average, for both 4th and 8th graders, sustaining a steady decline in the subject that predates COVID-era ...

From 2012 to 2022, scores dropped 4 percent among 9-year-olds and about 5 percent among 13-year olds. Reading scores showed smaller improvements prior to 2012.