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Two Thirds of American Kids Can't Read Fluently | Scientific American

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In October 2022, Mississippi reported some exhilarating news. After the state started using phonics to teach reading in 2013, its fourth-grade reading scores jumped from 49th to 29th in the nation, according to the Urban Institute’s National Assessment of Educational Progress. Unreported was the fact that in the 29th position, the state’s 4th graders were now on par with the rest of the nation in that roughly 65 percent of them had only what NAEP called basic skills. Mississippi had gone from the bottom of the pile to being just as bad as everywhere else. Some educators claim that these figures are misleading because the Basic Level (the level below proficiency) isn't bad at all. Even were that to be the case, the below Basic Level figures still yield the disturbing information that approximately four out of ten fourth-grade students lack the ability to read. Biennial testing through NAEP consistently shows that two thirds of U.S. children are unable to read with proficiency. An astoun

Opinion September 26, 2023 5 min read Add Us On Google Add SciAm Two Thirds of American Kids Can't Read Fluently Phonics may be a popular way to teach reading, but it fails too many children By Marion Blank Myrleen Pearson/Alamy Stock Photo In October 2022, Mississippi reported some exhilarating news. After the state started using phonics to teach reading in 2013, its fourth-grade reading scores jumped from 49th to 29th in the nation, according to the Urban Institute's National Assessment of Educational Progress. Unreported was the fact that in the 29th position, the state's 4 th graders were

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